> I've coded in PHP for a while, but I had to leave it for some time. Now
> I'm back, and I'd like to know what's currently being used to separate
> content from presentation, besides Smarty (that seems to be Google's top
> choice)?
I tried Smarty for several weeks and found it was more than I needed, so I
went back to my simpler template system.
I have templates that look like this for example:
> cat userImage.tpl
<!-- userImage Template -->
<tr>
<td><a href="index.php?i=$imageID"><img
src="thumbnail.php?i=$imageID" $imageHeightWidth border="0"
alt="$imageAltText" title="$imageAltText" /></a></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">$userType</td>
<td align="center">$commentsCountHTML</td>
<td align="center">$totalPoints</td>
<td align="center">$timesRated</td>
<td align="center">$averageRating</td>
</tr>
<!-- End userImage Template -->
Then in my php scripts I call a template like this:
$userImage = getTemplate("userImage");
eval("\$userImage = \"$userImage\";");
$html .= $userImage;
The function being:
function getTemplate($template){
global $Site;
$html = '';
$file = $Site['TemplatePath'] . '/' . $template . '.tpl';
if($handle = fopen($file, "r")){
while(!feof($handle)){
$html .= fgets($handle, 4096);
}
fclose($handle);
$html = str_replace("\\'","'", addslashes($html));
} else {
die('Fatal: cannot open template ' . $file . '<br />\n');
}
return $html;
}
Of course I have no template caching system like Smarty has, but I use
TurkeMM Cache: http://www.turcksoft.com/ and query caching from MySQL 4. I
also clean my html before output, removing all tabs and newline characters,
and I have zlib.output_compression enabled. Seems to work well.
--
Greg Donald
http://destiney.com/
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