Question for DRJ (Templates)

[skiflyer]

Since you always advocate the use of Templates, I was wondering if you had a favorite tutorial to point people towards regarding their use?

Personally I'm a big fan of having my code output everything, but I'm curious and want to make sure I'm making a fully educated decision.

Thanks!

Rob

 

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skiflyer

This is a bit old, but it shows ths basics of a template class:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/sascha19990316.php3

I don't use FasTemplate but a class that we've customized from a freely available template class.

Out customization we call ezTemplate. The features are:
- variable substitution with "safebraces" {!parameter!}
- parse associative array in 1 line (all placeholders corresponding to keys will we replaced)
- block definitions (for repeating sections)
- nested blocks
- remove/mark superfluous placeholders
- parse to browser
- parse full HTML into string
- parse extracted content

You can see an example of the template at work:

http://www.bu.edu/faqs/

The same application is available to all departments.
SOmething like this is almost impossible to realize without templates.
Same application, different templates:

http://www.bu.edu/webcentral/answers/

http://www.bu.edu/alumni/faqs/

 

[skiflyer]

I'll check it out when I get home tonight, thanks for the information!

-Rob