Question

I’ve seen several scripts during my time as a web programmer (I’m still new though) which had PHP included in an uncommon way.

The PHP was not added the usual way like <div><?php echo $foo; ?></div>, but this way: <div>{FOO}</div> or this <div>{$foo}</div>.

I am wondering how I could achieve such a thing? I really want to learn this thing.

Can someone direct me to the correct sources to learn this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It has to be a template engine? You inject values to it from a PHP script. Smarty is a basic example.

For example, from your PHP page, you write :

 include('Smarty.class.php');
 $smarty = new Smarty;
 $smarty->assign('foo', 'Bar Baz');
 $smarty->display('index.tpl');

And, your template page would look like

 <div>{foo}</div>

with .tpl extenstion.

When the program is run, the template variable {foo} will be replaced by its assigned value “Bar Baz”