array to include multi-lines and codes

auday1982

Hello

i have a question , how can i create an array like this


$template['somepage'] = 'the code';

the html code can be something like this

<table class="header1">
  <tr>
    <td class="header1td1"><?php echo "$config_webtitle"; ?></td>
    <td><?php echo "$config_pagetitle"; ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="50%">other things</td>
    <td width="50%">more and more for the header</td>
  </tr>
</table>

so i will need to write this kind of arrays many times , for example

page1 is article about movies , header is different from page2 which is about economy

i want to write this kind of arrays to files , and each of my page include the file

when displaying the code ,i use it to display particular data that related to the page

so simple template system...

Servyces

I wouldn't use arrays to achieve this, it's not a very logical approach. Arrays are not meant for this kind of things.

You'd better generate some default html templates like header/footer and main page and then include the right text content. For example you could use a database like this:

<?php
include_once('inc/header.php'); // Your HTML header template goes in there

/* If you want to call page content dynamically,
 * you could use a querystring in the URL,
 * like index.php?page=my-hobbies
 * You could get the data from a MySQL database
 *
 * Open connection and do a query like: */

$query = "SELECT `html` FROM `pages` WHERE `name`='" . mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['page']) . "';";

$html = html_entity_decode(mysql_result($query,0)); // Assuming you save the HTML encoded in the database, with a function like htmlspecialchars, you need to decode the result back to HTML here.

echo $html;

include_once('inc/footer.php'); // HTML footer template
?>

This kind of approach better suits a templating system.

auday1982

Hello

thank you for your reply

your way is so nice , from GET i can select the html i want in database

but i want to avoid using database

i thought if i add a file , that i can edit at anytime , and write my code above to that file , so the html code for header are all in one page ... there is default and there is other pages

when the default is not used ... the best thing i thought about is

echo "$template['somepage']";

after reading ... i found out that my file going to be large file , which is more heavy for the server than multiple files ...

but the only way to break it into files is to have if statment to check if the page got a special header , and if doesnt exist the page will use the default file

i am a beginner and creating a website with WAMP on windows , so just doing it for test and learning

i am confusing myself and making things complicated

thank you for your email , i hope you have time to tell me what is the easier way of learning php ... or the things that i should first learn and master them

thanks

Servyces;10892141 wrote:
I wouldn't use arrays to achieve this, it's not a very logical approach. Arrays are not meant for this kind of things.

You'd better generate some default html templates like header/footer and main page and then include the right text content. For example you could use a database like this:
<?php
include_once('inc/header.php'); // Your HTML header template goes in there

/* If you want to call page content dynamically,
 * you could use a querystring in the URL,
 * like index.php?page=my-hobbies
 * You could get the data from a MySQL database
 *
 * Open connection and do a query like: */

$query = "SELECT `html` FROM `pages` WHERE `name`='" . mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['page']) . "';";

$html = html_entity_decode(mysql_result($query,0)); // Assuming you save the HTML encoded in the database, with a function like htmlspecialchars, you need to decode the result back to HTML here.

echo $html;

include_once('inc/footer.php'); // HTML footer template
?>
This kind of approach better suits a templating system.

Servyces

Is there a reason why you do not want to use a database? For this purpose, it's the best solution. You could do it with writing to files, but a database is more efficient.

As for the header and footer, you should include them from 2 single files, if you ever want to change them, you just need to edit the file with the code and not all the pages from your site seperately.

auday1982

hello

for security reasons

i can back up files ... or even if they got deleted they are worth nothing ... but in database there is a shopping cart that i am trying to get ride of its smarty engine

so what i am going to do is to create templates and by the sku select the template details

so if in array i dont have to worry .... include the file ... after the shopping cart script get the product SKU from data base , i use that to select all array for that sku

sku123 example

cart system >>> selected all the data for sku123 .... now smarty should show them

i will use my way

for sku123 , price is from database , but this product got images and wide table for inside the description for example

the template i select i will call it onecolumn

so if not default then

$header['sku123']='htmlHeaderheaderheader';

for product sku321 , this got special discount , a div with the discount price init will be displayed

$discountbox['sku321'] = " div or whatever and $discount "

see how complex ... now how i have the array to equal what this echo produce


echo '<div style=\"color : #ff0000\"><p align=\"center\">price after discount :' . "$discountprice";

if i create a variable call it $discountsku123, it is much easier i think ...

i am new so i have ideas and dont know what to do withit ... and trying to do some and i know there are other better ways

buti really afraid someone will hack the database and then take contact or other infos that considered sensitive but not encrypted

thank you alot for trying to help me

Servyces;10892157 wrote:
Is there a reason why you do not want to use a database? For this purpose, it's the best solution. You could do it with writing to files, but a database is more efficient.

As for the header and footer, you should include them from 2 single files, if you ever want to change them, you just need to edit the file with the code and not all the pages from your site seperately.