PHPLib Template user needed for advice?

Anon

Hi guys,
I was hoping someone wo uses PHPLib templates could answer what I'm sure is a simple question for me.

Where do I best store the .ihtml files? and if they are, like I think stored in a directory adjacent to the sites root do I code the links relative to that dir or the final location of the page?

Hope that's clear!

Thanks very much

Nick

Anon

I put mine in /templates 😉

Then I'd do

include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/templates/mytemplate.ihtml');

or something similar.

Anon

Thanks Brian, you're not using PHPLib templates though are you?

Nick

toma42

You're definatly right Brian isn't useing phplib templates 🙂

I organize my projects like this:

/var/www/projects/PROJECTNAME

and within PROJECTNAME I have
/ihtml
/html
/include
/cache

and I have one project for phplib with no subdirs, just the class files.

so my ihtml dir is one level below my html directory. I then extend the template class and change the default base template dir so my constructor is just
$t = new ext_template;
rather than
$t = new template("/some/path/Ill/have/to/repeat/overand/over");

I then have a .htaccess file that sets my include path to include /projects/phplib and /projects/PROJECTNAME/include

Hopefully this more than answers your question.

toma42

Where do I best store the .ihtml files? and if they are, like I think stored in a directory adjacent to the sites root do I code the links relative to that dir or the final location of the page?

To actually answer your question now, the .ihtml files will look like they come from DocumentRoot so code links relative to /html and not like /ihtml/somethign

so
/html/index.php will use template
/ihtml/index.ihtml and index.ihtml will not be browsable from DocumentRoot because DocumentRoot will be /html/

Anon

Right! Got the links thing sussed just before you answered but I'm grateful for the insight into how you organize your projects, the way I'm doing it is not so different.
I have a general include that sniffs out the browser (among other things) and produces $template_path like /usr/share/php/projectincludes/templates/opera/
then in my script I just append the relevent file to that var and presto it's all there!

I thought you might show up on this post as I know you're a big template fan. I'm very intrigued by the .htaccess thing, would that allow me to use the entire PHPLIB system without having root access on the remote host?
In the docs it says to mess with php.ini t auto prepend.
Or do I have that wrong?

Thanks for your answer, it was most informative.

Nick

toma42

Here's my .htaccess for db.etree.org:

<Files bp>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
<Files wap>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
<Files shncirc>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
ErrorDocument 404 /myshows.php
php_value auto_prepend_file "/var/www/projects/phplib/prepend.php3"
php_value include_path ".:/var/www/projects/phplib:/var/www/projects/db/include/"

Or a much cooloer way which sets the include path dynamicly based on unix or windows then does the prepend file but this method requires you to include this file before anything else in all your scripts:

$we_root = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . '/..';
$delimiter = (strstr($HTTP_ENV_VARS["OS"], 'indows')) ? ';': ':';

ini_set('include_path', ".$delimiter$we_root/phplib$delimiter$we_root/include");

// Path to .ihtml files
define("TEMPLATE_DIR", "$we_root/ihtml"); ## No trailing /

include 'prepend.php3';

This method assumes this direcotry structure:
PROJECT/ihtml
PROJECT/html
PROJECT/phplib
PROJECT/include

I put it in a set_enviornment.php file then each file in my project begins:

include('set_enviornment.php');

If you're interested in cool template stuff, check out the source link from my main page at http://db.etree.org