Template system

Ice

Ive just decided to use a template system on my website now.. but the problem is.. i dunno where to start 🙁

Theres a lot of different template libraryies out there and im not sure of which one to pick, PHPlib, smarty, fast template and so on.

Do anyone have any recomendations. If you could, please include example of code, how they are stored, parsed and so on.

Any help really appreciated.

sarahk

I use phplib but it's old and there are people who say there are faster methods.

Simple example from http://www.pcpropertymanager.com/info/index.php and http://www.pcpropertymanager.com/esc/info/index.php

<?php
if (!isset($t))
{
  include_once("template.inc");
  $t = new Template();
}//end of check for template

$t->set_file( array( "HeadGen" =>"headgen.htm",
                     "HeadImg" =>"headimg.htm"				 ));

//set up the variations in my data		  

include("agentinfo.php"); 

if (!isset($seDescription)) 
  $seDescription = "Property Management Software. Save yourself time and effort managing your rental investment property. A management and accounting system for residential landlords";

$t->set_var( array("PRODNAME"  => $agentvars["prodname"],
		 "AGENT"     => $agentvars["mcname"],
		 "AGENTCSS"  => $agentvars["css"],
		 "AGENTORDER"=> $agentvars["order"],
		 "AGENTCONT" => $agentvars["contact"],
		 "IMGDIR"    => $agentvars["imgdir"],
		 "KEYWORDS"  => $keywords,
		 "AGENTFLAG" => $agentvars["params"],
		 "AGENTTAG"  => $agentvars["dir"],
		 "ORDERTAG"  => $agentvars["order"],
		 "AGENTDIR"  => $agentvars["dir"],
		 "TITLE"     => $title,
		 "DEMONAME"  => $agentvars["demoname"],
		 "UPGRNAME"  => $agentvars["upgrname"],
		 "STR_HTTP"  => $STR_HTTP,
		 "STR_HTTPS" => $STR_HTTPS,
		 "SEDESCRIPTION"=> $seDescription
                  ));

$t->parse("Output", "HeadGen");
$t->p ("Output");
$t->parse("Output", "HeadImg");
$t->p ("Output");
?>

then my headgen.html looks like

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<!-- Headgen -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>{PRODNAME} :: {TITLE}</title>	 
<!-- {SEDESCRIPTION} -->
<meta http-equiv="description" content="{SEDESCRIPTION}">
<meta name="keywords" content="profit, property, investment, apartment, program, rent roll, accounts, free, {KEYWORDS}">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
{AGENTCSS}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{STR_HTTP}v2/styles/navbuts.css" type="text/css">
<script src="{STR_HTTP}v2/includes/stats4all.js"></script>
<script src="{STR_HTTP}v2/includes/pcpm.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">
pcpmPreLoad('{STR_HTTP}v2/images/pcpnav_on.gif');
</script>
{EXTRAHEAD}
</head>