Re: Auto-generating HTML

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On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:56 -0400, Andy McKenzie wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
>   I have the feeling this is a stupid question, but I can't even find
> anything about it.  Maybe I'm just not searching for the right things.
> 
>   Here's the problem.  I'm writing a lot of pages, and I hate going in
> and out of PHP.  At the same time, I want my HTML to be legible.  When
> you look at it, that's kind of a problem, though... for instance
> (assume this had some PHP in the middle, and there was actually a
> reason not to just put this in HTML in the first place):
> 
> Simple PHP:
> <?php
> 
> echo '<html>';
> echo '<head>';
> echo '  <title>Page Title</title>';
> echo '</head>';
> echo '<body>';
> echo '<p>This is the page body</p>';
> echo '</body>';
> echo '</html>';
> 
> ?>
> 
> 
> Output page source:
> <html><head>  <title>Page Title</title></head><body><p>This is the
> page body</p></body></html>
> 
> 
> Now, I can go through and add a newline to the end of each line (echo
> '<html>' . "\n"; and so on), but it adds a lot of typing.  Is there a
> way to make this happen automatically?  I thought about just building
> a simple function, but I run into problem with quotes -- either I
> can't use single quotes, or I can't use double quotes.  Historically,
> I've dealt with the issue by just having ugly output code, but I'd
> like to stop doing that.  How do other people deal with this?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Alex
> 


Have you thought about SMARTY templates?

easy to use, it's just a class, and you write your html in template
files, which are easier to read than in your php files.

Just a thought... i personally LOVE smarty template.

Steve


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