On Jan 17, 2008 10:08 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Though I haven't heard much discussion, it seems like whenever I hear about
> templating, it's using Smarty. Does anyone have any thoughts on
> Smarty/PHPTAL/other engines that may be out there?
I don't like PHPTAL because it only works if the output is html/xml.
A templating engine should be capable of outputting emails, csv,
javascript etc. I like smarty, and I like plain ol' php. Templating
is built into php, unfortunately many people don't figure out how to
use it correctly. Below is a class that provide smarty like
templating in less than 25 lines of code: (I haven't tested it, but
there is no reason it won't work)
<?php
Class Simple_Template {
var $_data;
function Simple_Template() { }
function assign($k,$v) {
$this->_data[$k] = $v;
return $this;
}
function fetch($template) {
ob_start();
$this->display($template);
return ob_get_clean();
}
function display($template) {
extract($this->_data);
include($template);
return $this;
}
}
// hello.php
<?php
include 'Simple_Template.php';
$tpl = new Simple_Template();
$tpl->assign('title','My First Page')->assign('message','Hello
World'); // chainability is fun
$tpl->display('view.phtml');
// view.phtml -- this is the diplay logic.
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<body>
<h1><?php echo $message ?></h1>
</body>
</html>
While this looks complicated for a simple hello world application, it
cleanly separates the application logic from the display logic. Tack
on a url router, and you can have a "framework" in less than 50 lines
of code. It's guaranteed to be really fast too.
Regards,
John Campbell
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