I was just reading a little on this. This is the way you build a template system. Smarty uses "{ }". Maybe you could check out the Smarty page and get an idea. <http://smarty.php.net/> Or maybe you could just use Smarty, you can change the "{ }" to anything you want. > Hi All, > > I need to write a PHP extension or a PHP template system (this is the > question) to parse some commands enclosed in square brackets inside web > pages. Please note that the commands are in the form [command1] and not > <?php [command1] ?>. > I want use PHP because these commands needs to be remapped with a "web > oriented" language. > > Is it technically possible to remap these square brackets tags to php? > And if yes, what is the best way? A custom template system or a C PHP > extension? Get Smarty. If you get into Smarty could you let us know how 'steep' it was? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php