Comments on: A simple PHP HTML/CSS templating system (REDUX)

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:53:50 +0000

Smarty++

(But that’s just because we’ve a large stack of working / additional code based upon it)

By: phil

phil — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:17:47 +0000

@Vinny: I’m confused as to what your point of view is. You seem both annoyed that this is an old topic yet pleased that it is being brought up again.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:57:33 +0000

Good to see that more ppl finally start using this habit of dividing pages into included parts.

But it was certainly not God that invented it

It’s a good point mentioning it again. but the Idea is already SO OLD

By: daewoo

daewoo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:58:00 +0000

@Phil
Similar principles to javascript Dom (but serverside.) Basically, allows you to manipulate XML docs to W3C DOM spec.
Have a look here http://uk3.php.net/dom.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:50:57 +0000

@Sean-Paul:

1: There is a mistake in the code, it should be
$objTemplate->setExtraBehaviour("$(document).ready(function(){$('#paragraph').addClass('example');});"); note the ‘ after #paragraph, I’ll fix the example.

2: You can just include the header and the footer file and that will work great in most cases. A lot of people even include the Doctype at the top of their pages instead of putting that in a header file. The beauty of this approach is that you can suddenly switch which header file to include based upon any number of factors.

I’ll be honest and say this OOP approach’s advantages over a procedural approach can be difficult to see and that’s because they’re not that big. The code looks nicer and OOP is flavour of the day. Using this template, you’ll hoping find updating/creating basic websites much quicker.

By: Sean-Paul

Sean-Paul — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:08:51 +0000

This looks great. I have been searching for a good template to build my website (v2) on. I have tow questions:

1. The code seems to work fine if I comment out –> $objTemplate->setExtraBehaviour(”$(document).ready(function(){$(’#paragraph”).addClass(’example’);});”); Any idea why?

2. *Noob Alert* But why not just include the footer file and header file? Why go through the trouble of using OOP for a template? Like I said, noob, but I have seen it used over and over and never quite understood the benefit.

Thanks for your time and contribution! -SP

By: phil

phil — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:05:05 +0000

@Daewoo: Ta for the tip. I’m not familiar with php DOM is it similar to html_element class by David Walsh

By: DaeWoo

DaeWoo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:19:29 +0000

Nice work. And clean, notation as well, habit I’ve got to get into. Have you thought of using php DOM (compiled with PHP 5), I’m building a similar tmeplate system at the moment using it, which lets you insert html elements on the fly (just in case you missed something).
Can send you a copy of the class if you want it.
Keep up the good work.
D

By: phil

phil — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:59:33 +0000

@louis w: I like the way you think. The current class does allow a (rather clunky) way around with the setExtraStyle method e.g:

$objTemplate->setExtraStyle(’@import url(”/style/print.css”) print;’);

$objTemplate->setExtraStyle(’@media print{ css{rule: goes-here;} }’);

but your way is better!

By: louis w

louis w — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:53:55 +0000

Very simple and gets the job done. Good work.

About choosing a media type for the css, I would do this:

$objTemplate->setStyle(array(’home’,'forms’), ’screen’);
$objTemplate->setStyle(’print’, ‘print’);