RE: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Chris W. Parker]

Joel Konkle-Parker 
on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:51 PM said:

> Does that make any sense?

Yes, and that's what I kind of thought you meant but just couldn't
envision it completely.


Chris.

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Re: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

> With method 2 it seems like your template file would become redundant
> because every one of them would have to contain the header and footer
> code.
> 
> I would use 3 template files, header.php, footer.php, and
> body_index.php
> 
> index.php would:
> 
> 1. PERFORM LOGIC
> 2. include header
> 3. include body
> 4. include footer
> 
> Then, all you have to do is make new body_XXX.php files for each page
> on
> your site and the header/footer content is contained in one place.

Ok, wait, I'm having a hard time understanding this... the browser would request
the same index.php every time? with server.com/index.php?query_string? And the
query string would determine the body_XXX.php to be included?

Right now I have it set up so that a different index.php is requested each time,
 but calls the same template.php.

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RE: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

Quoting "Chris W. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> And I completely don't understand Option #2. What does body() do and
> why
> do you call it? Can you show some pseudo code to help us (or maybe
> it's
> just me) understand how Option #2 works?

Browser calls index.php

--
#index.php

programming tasks..

$results = results of above;

function body() {
  # info, content, etc.
  global $results;
  echo $results;
}

require "template.php";
--

--
#template.php

prints header stuff

body();

prints footer stuff
--

Does that make any sense?


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RE: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Chris W. Parker]

Russell P Jones 
on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:44 AM said:

> Agreed with John W. Homes regarding his method of website templating.
> It is used in that fashion for all sites run by demcampaigns.com and
> www.collegedems.com

In that case it CAN'T be a good idea! HAR HAR!



Chris.

p.s. not looking to start a holy/flame war, just thought it'd be funny!

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Re: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Russell P Jones]

Agreed with John W. Homes regarding his method of website templating. It
is used in that fashion for all sites run by demcampaigns.com and
www.collegedems.com

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Re: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Joel Konkle-Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> I'm trying to make a PHP-backed website, and I'm trying to decide between
two
> templating schemes:
>
> 1. define 2 php template files: header.php, footer.php. in index.php,
require
> header.php, output content, require footer.php
>
> 2. define a php template file and a local page file. index.php defines
body()
> and crequires template.php. template.php prints the header, calls body()
to
> print the content, and and prints the footer.
>
> I'm currently using the second method, but I've only seen the first used
> elsewhere. Is there a reason that #1 is better than #2 (or is anything
else even
> better than that?)?

With method 2 it seems like your template file would become redundant
because every one of them would have to contain the header and footer code.

I would use 3 template files, header.php, footer.php, and body_index.php

index.php would:

1. PERFORM LOGIC
2. include header
3. include body
4. include footer

Then, all you have to do is make new body_XXX.php files for each page on
your site and the header/footer content is contained in one place.

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RE: [PHP] Website templating schemes

[Chris W. Parker]

Joel Konkle-Parker 
on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:26 AM said:

> I'm currently using the second method, but I've only seen the first
> used elsewhere. Is there a reason that #1 is better than #2 (or is
> anything else even better than that?)?

Thought about using Smarty? http://smarty.php.net

And I completely don't understand Option #2. What does body() do and why
do you call it? Can you show some pseudo code to help us (or maybe it's
just me) understand how Option #2 works?


Chris.

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