loop in a template(html file) ..how

[phprock]

Hello,
I m tring to make my own simple template. As I am not familiar with oop i decided to use a simple function.

The following code works fine when i have single record.
$row= is the all records loaded from database or defined.
$tmlt=is the name of html file

let say I have a template call profile.html
and it has the following code

//profile.html
User Name:$row[user_name]
User Phone:$row[user_phone]
User photo:// how to display loop here 

<?php
$result=@mysql_query("SELECT * From user",$db);
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$result2=@mysql_query("SELECT * FROM photo where user_id='$row[user_id]'",$db);

$loop=@mysql_fetch_array($result2);


template($row,"profile.php",$loop);

?>

function template($row="",$tmlt="",$loop="")
$tmpfile="themes/pink/$tmlt.html";
if(!file_exists($tmpfile)){
die("File '$tmpfile' Not Found.");
}
$file=implode("",@file($tmpfile));
$file=addslashes($file);
eval("\$output=\"$file\";");
$output=stripslashes($output);
echo"$output";
}

But in the sample template(ie.profile.html) I might want to display all the pictures of the user. so I need to pass parameter and it has to be loop.

How do i printout printout loop in that html file.

[dave420]

When I made my own templating toolkit, I took this approach to loops:

In the template, I had a loop like this:

%%person%%%
Name: %%%name%%%<br>
Phone: %%%phone%%%<br>
%%%person%%

My templating class would read in the template, and look at the replacement data I gave it. For the above example, $person would be an array. The templating class works as follows:

Match loop pattern.
Loop round variable with same name as loop, appending output with copy of loop's inner HTML with replaced variables
Replace loop with output generated in above line.

Then, you have your template with the variables replaced in it.

I've used this technique to generate loads of things from templates. It's saved me so much work 🙂

[phprock]

Thank you for the reply.
Any code example