Whats the best way to create templates using php?

Answer 1

Every template language has its own way of approaching the problem. You could, instead of writing your own template language from scratch, use one of the standard ones out there like Smarty.

If you are writing your own, you'll need at a minimum a construct that will let you express loops and conditionals. One simple approach that I've seen used before is something like:

<!-- BEGIN conditional_or_looped_block_named_foo -->
Stuff that may appear zero or more times
<!-- END conditional_or_looped_block_named_foo -->

The syntax varies widely, of course, from one language to another, but the basic approach is the same: have some markup that surrounds the portion of code you want to isolate and repeat (or omit).

Answer 2

This should give you an idea: http://www.handyphp.com/index.php/PHP-Resources/Handy-PHP-Tutorials/Creating-Your-First-Template-Driven-PHP-Website-Part-2.html

I found it by doing a quick search, it has code to do what you are asking, it does search and replace with simply variables that you have created.

So your foreach() call would not echo but store in a variable, then you replace that variable with {users} in the template.

Answer 3

For these "{tags}" type template you have a very popular engine: Smarty

Answer 4

Smarty is too redundant! Your class with the function of cutting a page is enough.