Question

I am building an template engine and I am thinking to use preg_split(); but instead of using ‘{‘ and ‘}’ I am thinking to use ‘[@’ and ‘@]’ but I would like to implement functionality like in smarty. { tag_to_replace | escape_html } and I would like to be able to get everything after the | delimiter. What should be the best way to implement that functionality.

Thank you all in advance!
Please don’t give me suggestions to use SMARTY or any other template engine. I am building my own PHP Framework (for learning purposes) and would like to implement one. Thank you very much.

Cheers!

Answer 1

This is very good short “cheat sheet” and testing tool for regular expressions, play with it. But i agree – template engine should be much simpler.

http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/pregtest.htm