Dears, In one of the tutorials I read about templates, the writer is diving the code into multiple files. He put the menu, main, left, right, footer each in a separate file. He is using foreach to go through an array and reads all these files.
Is this a good practice? Would this slow down the site? ---THE WRITER'S CODE--- <?php require_once('lib/template.php'); $page = new Page('std.tpl'); $page->replace_tags(array( 'title' => 'HOME', 'description' => 'Welcome to my website!', 'main' => 'dat/index.dat', 'menu' => 'dat/menu.dat', 'left' => 'dat/submenu.dat', 'right' => 'dat/right.dat', 'footer' => 'dat/footer.php')); $page->output(); ?> //template.php <?php class Page { var $page; function Page($template = 'std.tpl') { if (file_exists($template)) $this->page = join('', file($template)); else die("Template file $template not found."); } function parse($file) { ob_start(); include($file); $buffer = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $buffer; } function replace_tags($tags = array()) { if (sizeof($tags) > 0) foreach ($tags as $tag => $data) { $data = (file_exists($data)) ? $this->parse($data) : $data; $this->page = eregi_replace('{' . $tag . '}', $data, $this->page); } else die('No tags designated for replacement.'); } function output() { print($this->page); } } ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php