Now you want FastTemplate to substitute all your {MACROS} with their
respective values in the template
respective values in the template
foo
Issue
the command
<?php $tpl->parse(PAGECONTENT, "foo"); ?>
to do that. This
command will assign the content of the template “foo” to the unique name
PAGECONTENT.
Of course, we are not done with that yet since the template
bar
holds the main page definition
and FastTemplate needs to substitute the macro {PAGECONTENT} in it.
We also need to assign
a PAGETITLE and to do that we say:
<?php
$tpl
->assign(PAGETITLE, "FooBar test");
$tpl->parse(MAIN, "bar");
?>
Easy, is it not? We just need to print it out now:
<?php
$tpl
->FastPrint(MAIN);
?>
The following three files show how the more verbose description
looks in practice. I would not know how to live without this
technique in real life – your designers will be happy and your boss
will smile, because you can do more things in less time.
looks in practice. I would not know how to live without this
technique in real life – your designers will be happy and your boss
will smile, because you can do more things in less time.
bar.tpl
<!-- bar.tpl -->
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Feature world - {PAGETITLE}</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=BLACK TEXT=WHITE>
<H1>{PAGETITLE}</H1>
{PAGECONTENT}
</BODY>
</HTML>
foo.tpl
<!-- foo.tpl -->
This does not do anything obvious. Please look at {NAME}.
demo.php3
<?php
include "class.FastTemplate.php3";
$tpl = new FastTemplate(".");
$tpl->define(array(foo => "foo.tpl", bar => "bar.tpl"));
$tpl->assign(NAME, "me");
$tpl->assign(PAGETITLE, "Welcome!");
$tpl->parse(PAGECONTENT, "foo");
$tpl->parse(MAIN, "bar");
$tpl->FastPrint(MAIN);
?>
Building whole tables
I have also written a short example which demonstrates how to build
whole tables with single row templates. It is effective, because
you still do not need to tinker with HTML directly.
whole tables with single row templates. It is effective, because
you still do not need to tinker with HTML directly.
We attach the content of a template to an
already defined unique name to build the HTML table. This can be
done by sticking a single “.” into the front of the template name
when calling $tpl->parse():
already defined unique name to build the HTML table. This can be
done by sticking a single “.” into the front of the template name
when calling $tpl->parse():
<?php
# assign the content of template foo to the unique name TPL1
$tpl->parse(TPL1, "foo");
# attach the content of template bar to the unique name TPL1
$tpl->parse(TPL1, ".bar");
?>
