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Answer 1

+3 A:

With a little work before hand you can do it with a single preg_replace call:

$replacements = array();
foreach ($data as $search => $replacement) {
   $replacements["/<% $search %>/"] = $replacement;
}
$endMarkup = preg_replace(
     array_keys($replacements), 
     array_values($replacements), 
     $template);

Allain Lalonde 2009-01-12 02:54:47

With this method you could just use str_replace().

yjerem 2009-01-12 03:00:59

Thanks Jeremy, you beat me to the edit;

Issac Kelly 2009-01-12 03:10:22

Absolutely. I'd probably go with $replacements["/<% ?$search ?%>/i"] = $replacement; and then it'd be worth using regexes.

Allain Lalonde 2009-01-12 03:14:48

If you cant verify or vouch for the titles you should use preg_quote. print_r(array("df+g?/4dd4" => 3));

OIS 2009-01-12 03:19:15

Answer 2

A:

You can do this with preg_replace_callback(). Here is how I'd do it:

function get_data($matches) {
    global $data;

    return $data[$matches[1]];
}

$endMarkup = preg_replace_callback('/<% ([a-z]+) %>/', 'get_data', $template);

Or all in one line using create_function() if you prefer:

$endMarkup = preg_replace_callback('/<% ([a-z]+) %>/', create_function('$matches', 'global $data; return $data[$matches[1]];'), $template);

yjerem 2009-01-12 02:55:25

Answer 3

+1 A:

You could try without regex if you wanted to. The function str_replace was made for this. If you don't understand regex this will be the best option for you.

Test data:

$data = array(
  'title' => 'My Cool Title',
  'content' => ''
);

$file = <<< EOF
<html>
<title><% title %></title>
<body><% content %></body>
</html>
EOF;

Function and example:

function replace_template($template, $data)
{
    $replace = array_fill(0, count($data), '<%% %s %%>');
    $keys = array_map('sprintf', $replace, array_keys($data));
    $output = str_replace($keys, $data, $template);
    return $output;
}

echo replace_template($file, $data);

OIS 2009-01-12 03:15:30

Answer 4

A:

Why do you want to bother with templating at all? PHP already is a templating language. Unless you're trying to rule out the possibility of code execution, everything you need is built into the language.

You can write your templates using plain PHP with short tags. You can wrap it all in a function to limit variable scope a bit. You can use import() to get a handful of variables out of an array. You can use include or require() to handle loading, parsing & inserting values into the file. You can use output buffering (ob_start()/ob_end()) to handle capturing the output in a string. Everything's built in, fast & thoroughly tested.

Sean McSomething 2009-01-12 17:44:10

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