At 1:04 AM -0700 10/26/06, Paul Novitski wrote:
At 10/25/2006 11:24 PM, Robert Cummings wrote:
I use a tag based template system, there's no PHP in my content so my
content files for the most part just look like more HTML.
This is a different topic, but also one close to my heart. Yes, I
too use my own selector-based templating system. It does allow me
to embed PHP variables into the template if I want, but the primary
merge between plain HTML template and MySQL content happens through
CSS-style selectors.
I also embed php variables inside css -- it gives it more functionality.
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Hello <jinn:render name="email" selector="firstName"/>,
Cool.
My comparable example (but in an HTML context) would look like:
Hello <span class="firstName">FIRSTNAME</span>,
where the engine replaces the content of the span with the value
from the database based on a match of 'span.firstName' or perhaps
just '.firstName'. (In this example the 'FIRSTNAME' content in the
template is merely a place-holder to make it easier to preview the
markup and isn't necessary to the merge process.)
I think a <div> would work just as well -- <span> seems so old-world
to me. :-)
However, if you used preg_match_all, I think you could do away with
the spans all together by matching FIRSTNAME to your first name
variable. That way your document would simply read:
Hello FIRSTNAME
Just an idea.
tedd
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