Joe Wollard wrote:
Evert,
Have you looked at smarty (http://smarty.php.net) ? It doesn't do exactly what you're talking about but it seems to be the "Fastest templating mechanism" that I've tested; probably one of the most versatile as well.
Cheers! -Joe
www.joewollard.com
Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on a template system which works a bit like a text translation block. The data looks for example like:
beginblock <div class="block"> endblock </div> beginauthor <span class="author"> endauthor </div>
The list is going to be very large, it will have several overlays and not all pages need all items in the list. (usually just a fraction)
What will be the smartest way to implement this? I need a low-memory cost and fast solution
I can do it with a php script, like:
$list = array( 'beginblock' => '<div class="block">',
etc.
);
but this will use up too much memory. I could additionally do it with a textfile, but if I need to loop through it at every lookup it will be slow..
What are your suggestions?
regards, Evert
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your replies. I Think I haven't been very clear about what I really need. First of all, I don't need an existing templating system, because I am working on my own templating system.
And regarding Satyam's post. This looks a lot like what I'm developing right now, but also not my issue =)
What I really need is a fast lookup mechanism, to 'translate' statements.
For example:
setOutputType('xhtml');
echo(translate('authorstart'));the function translate opens xhtml.data, which contains:
authorstart : <span class="author"> authorend : </span>
so, the translate function looks 'authorstart' up and returns '<span class="author">'
or if you had specified 'wml' as the outputtype, the file could like like:
authorstart : <b> authorend : </b>
and the function would return '<b>'
This is all no problem, except that these lists can be pretty big. And I wouldn't like to load them all into the memory, or have to loop through the file every time translate is called.
So I need a very fast mechanism to overcome this problem.
Any ideas?
grt, Evert
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