Want to output variable contents in htm file from php file, how?

[camarosource]

I have a PHP file. No MYSQL database. I'd like to have it open an .htm file and output the results in the php file to the .htm template.

So, for example say there is a bunch of variables called:

$make
$model
$year

I want to open a .htm file and output the contents of $make, $model & $year in the htm format using variables in the htm itself. ie. {make} {model} {year} and it would import the contents of each into the corresponding tag.

How can this be achieved?

Thanks

[Pig]

You either need to set up apache to parse .htm files as php files, or name your files with .php.

Then you can either set the vars on that page, or include another file that has the vars in it.

Then just use the vars in your code.

The make is <?php echo( $make ); ?>

Is that what you mean?

[DoD]

See the template articles

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/index.php3?cat=3&subcat=35

which can set you up with a template like you want in 5 mins.

Or you can do what i did, which is write on yesturday 😛

Here's what i did, you might find it useful...

function load_template($file) {
	$tpl_file="$tpl_dir".$file;
	if(!file_exists($tpl_file)) print"Loading template failed!";
	$result = file_get_contents($file);
    return $result;
}

Just simply run $template = load_template(filename) and it will return as the html file in $template

You may need to edit the $tpl_file settings

then:

function tpl_replace($data, $template) { 
$search = array_keys ($data); 
$replace = array_values ($data); 
$template = str_replace ($search, $replace, $template); 
return $template; 
}

simply set what you want to replace with what variable:

$data = array (
"{IMG_TITLE}" => "$cat",
"{CONTENT}" => "$content",
"{PAGE_TITLE}" => "$page_title",
"{INDEX_LINK}" => "$index_link",
"{NEWS_LINK}" => "$news_link",
"{SITES_LINK}" => "$sites_link",
"{FORUMS_LINK}" => "$forums_link",
"{ABOUT_LINK}" => "$about_link",
"{SERVICES_LINK}" => "$services_link",
);

then run the function in the forum: $template = replace_tpl($data, $template);

then just echo it.

the functions will need to be inserted at the start of the page, you can use them afterwards like normal functions