Why not try to use one of the template systems that already exist? HTML_Template_IT, Smarty, etc.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:22:42 +0300, sempsteen <sempsteen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi, i'm working on a template system. Basically i'm building raw
> contents in arrays and then put them in templates by some special
> tags.
>
> for loop systems my basic array structure is like this:
> $array['key'][]['keyword'] = ...
>
> for example, for a bulletin board system, array structure for
> categories is something like this:
> $array['categories'][]['text_category_name'] = ...
>
> it is looped through database recordset, so final array for 2 categories
> can be:
> $array['categories'][0]['text_category_name'] = 'programming'
> $array['categories'][1]['text_category_name'] = 'life'
>
> template file structure for loops is something like this (ex, categories):
> <!-- loop|categories:bof -->
> <tr>
> <td>[$text_category_name$]</td>
> </tr>
> <!-- loop|categories:eof -->
>
> i can easily loop this template and replace [$text_category_name] for
> every category set in the array. after removing the comment tags i get
> the final content:
>
> <tr>
> <td>programming</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>life</td>
> </tr>
>
> But i'm stuck with nested loops. For example i want to put related
> forums after each categories.
>
> array structure is:
> $array['categories'][0]['text_category_name'] = programming
> $array['categories'][0]['forums'][0]['text_forum_name'] = php
> $array['categories'][0]['forums'][1]['text_forum_name'] = ruby
>
> $array['categories'][1]['text_category_name'] = life
> $array['categories'][1]['forums'][0]['text_forum_name'] = music
> $array['categories'][1]['forums'][1]['text_forum_name'] = sports
>
> template structure is:
> <!-- loop|categories:bof -->
> <tr>
> <td>[$text_category_name$]</td>
> </tr>
> <!-- loop|forums:bof -->
> <tr>
> <td>[$text_forum_name$]</td>
> </tr>
> <!-- loop|forums:eof -->
> <!-- loop|categories:eof -->
>
> i've written some functions, used them recursively but it didn't work.
> actually i couldn't find the true logic. note that it isn't a limited
> array. it can have messages under each forums, peoples under each
> messages, so on..
>
> help me find the true approach to handle this. thank you.
>
>
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