PEAR and .tpl templates

Bullit

Hi there
I am using PEAR and .tpl templates to creat my pages at the moment.
It all works very well.

However,
all my pages have the same header - and other common elements. How can I extract them from the template file and have them in one place - so that they are easily edited once and that chance then takes place on 20 or more pages.

The old messy way would be to put all the code in a .inc file such as showHeader.inc or similar -- but then I will end up with php code and html formatting in the same file. Not what PEAR is all about.

hope this Q is understandable.
I want to keep code and presentation seperate and not repeat common elements in my .tpl's as I am doing at the moment

Look forward to your solutions / ideas

mrhappiness

why can't you have a header.tpl that get's displayed by your template engine before the content template gets displayed?

Bullit

I haven't experimented with it yet.

So can I have a header.tpl with:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd">
<head><title>Phonebook home</title>
<link href="./templates/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head>
<body>
<div id ="content"><div id ="header">

<br><h1>Company Name</h1>

---end of header.tpl file----

then a content.tpl with:

blah blah blah
</div>
</body>

</html>

---end of content.tpl file----

and my php code saying
$template->loadTemplatefile("header.tpl", true, true);
$template2->loadTemplatefile("content.tpl", true, true);
.
.
.
$template->show(); //show header.tpl
$template2->show(); //show content.tpl

would that work?

mrhappiness

Should work, but I don't your template engine

Just give it a try, what are you afraid of?

Bullit

failure and humiliation...

will give it a shot.
Will let you know how it goes! Thanks

vaaaska

Originally posted by Bullit
failure and humiliation...

Is the best way to learn. Get used to it and you will go very far. 😉

Bullit

It worked a treat.

i can
$template->show(); //show header.tpl
$template2->show(); //show content.tpl
$template3->show(); //show footer.tpl

Very handy! Cheers