FastTemplate Substitution
September 22, 2000
Now you want FastTemplate to substitute all your {MACROS} with their
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 not it? 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.
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);
?>
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