Templates, %% & {}

[help_needed]

Hi,

I was wondering how to use the following

{SOMETHING}

%SOMETHING%

I've seen it used in scripts where they'd just enter {SOMETHING} and it'll display some string.

for Example if

SOMETHING = "my dog";
$something = "my dog";

Instead of

echo $something

They just have

{SOMETHING}

and it prints out my dog.

[jweissig]

Hello,

To use this you need have have a template engine in place.. check out Smarty : Template Engine.

You can create a template called something like "home.html". And in home you have the {$SOMETHING} template tag.

Then you create a simple script something like

// include the smarty template engine software
require('Smarty.class.php');

// create a new class object
$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->assign('SOMETHING','my dob');

$smarty->display('home.html');

As you can see from the script I called the smarty template engine and assigned "SOMETHING = my dog" to the home.html template.

When you run this script it will parse the home.html template and replace {$SOMETHING} with "my dog". This is really awesome because you can change the front end of your side and you do not have to mess around this all the PHP.

Thanks,
- Justin