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Alternative of ASP.NET's UserControls in PHP?

Answer 1

+1 A:

The UserControl concept does not explicitly exist in PHP, though you can encapsulate the the functionality that you want in a file and use the include() function to place it into your pages where you wish.

<html>
 <head>
   <title></title>
 </head>
 <body>
   <?php include('header.php'); ?>
   <?php include('pageBody.php'); ?>
   <?php include('footer.php'); ?>
 </body>
</html>

Note that Smarty provides for much better separation of processing and rendering, and will make this type of thing super smooth.

Matthew Vines 2009-06-06 16:56:33

I know the include very well, but using include I can't pass a variable as Property, which we can easily do in UserControls. To make it more clear, let's say I want to pass a variable to ma usercontrol, on the basis of which my website navigation selects and deselect current menu in the header. But using include how can i perform this ??

Prashant 2009-06-06 17:00:49

Check out Smarty. This sort of thing is possible using it's templating engine. It will be a bit of a paradigm shift for you though.

Matthew Vines 2009-06-06 17:09:46

Answer 2

+1 A:

A second answer which is a bit harder to explain in detail here, is to build your own 'UserControl' classes. The Classes would have the neccessary properties that you require, and Would have a RenderHTML() method that would output the control to the screen.

Matthew Vines 2009-06-06 17:15:02

hmmmmmm... looks cool.. we can apply this... but then for every control we have to make separate Ucontrol class ??

Prashant 2009-06-06 18:39:04

I would use an interface to ensure that all your control classes behave in the same manner. But yeah you would have to create a separate class for every user control you wished to make. But this is the same in Asp.net. All the normal inheritance rules would apply, where one ucontrol could inherit from another, etc.

Matthew Vines 2009-06-06 22:29:32

Yes, for every different control we have to create a UserControl in asp.net too and same can be applied to PHP class method. :)

Prashant 2009-06-07 04:42:03

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