RE: [PHP] Methods for creating HTML with PHP
> -Original Message- > From: Jason Giangrande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm looking for an easy way to write all my HTML using PHP. Jason, Sorry this is late and not even sure if you found your answer to this question that you ask, however I think in the end it's going to be up to you on how you do this as with anything, but the one thing that I do and prefer is to include() my html with include files and ontop of that I have them in functions so that like my header.php include page will allow me to change the "title of the page", "the page topic" and some other functions specific to my website. I find this way to be very convenient also for updates, I no longer have to change all the files, I can update one template file and they are all changed whenever that particular include is used. It's nice. NOW!! With that said, The one other thing I could suggest that I didn't see anyone else mention, as you thought it was confusing to jump in and out of html/php mode. Why not use heredoc? I'm still new to php, so I'm not even sure this is exactly what you wanted, but give it a look and see if this would make your coding easier to follow? Just my 2 pennies! :) The manual doesn't have alot on this topic, heredoc is a string related feature and can be found here... http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string .syntax.heredoc If you google for "heredoc" or "here document" you'll find other pages of reference. Like this gentleman even tested the speed difference from echo/printing lines vs heredoc. Pretty interesting.. http://shat.net/php/notes/heredoc.php Again not sure if this was what you where looking for but might just help you since you don't have to use "print" statements and all html code can be written inside and you can use variable interpolation. Heck you could even use the include()(s) as well and place the heredoc in them for your headers/footers/navigation/etc... Good Luck, Wolf -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Methods for creating HTML with PHP
Jason Giangrande wrote: [ snipped ] Also, is it possible to download a package marked beta with PEAR, or does it need to be downloaded manually? Yes, you can do this, by running the following command: $ pear config-set preferred_state beta Then you can download beta packages. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Methods for creating HTML with PHP
At 08:20 PM 3/24/2004, Jason Giangrande wrote:
Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
How about just escaping out of php :-) and embedding the html direct?
Jason Giangrande wrote:
I'm looking for an easy way to write all my HTML using PHP. I could do
this with a bunch of print statements or the like, but that doesn't seem
like a real good solution. I noticed that PEAR has several packages for
creating HTML. Has anyone used any of these packages?
I'm particularly interested in the HTML_Common, HTML_Page, and HTML_CSS
packages. The HTML_Page package, which to me seems like the one package
that actually outputs HTML, is marked as "beta". Anyone know if there
are any alternative packages that do a similar thing?
Also, is it possible to download a package marked beta with PEAR, or
does it need to be downloaded manually?
Thanks,
That's the thing. I'm looking for an alternative way of writing HTML into
PHP pages. I did a few simple pages a while ago just using print
statements instead of closing the PHP tag and then writing HTML. It made
the code a little easier to follow. The problem is that print statements
can add up fast, so using to many of them in one page is probably just as
hard to follow as closing a PHP block, so you can write some HTML. That
was why I was looking for an alternative way to write HTML in PHP pages.
I tried the HTML_Page class from PEAR, but it seems to have some issues
still. I guess that's why it's still in beta. I've decided I'll try and
write something on my own for now that incorporates a few things I've seen
in other classes (mainly HTML_Common, and HTML_Page).
Jason
I have done this before and it worked for me not sure how much you need it
though
include("header.htm")
some code
include("body.htm")
include("left_menu.htm")
more code
include("footer.htm")
?>
this way just php is in the main document and all the html is pulled from
smaller html files elsewhere.
This will also allow you to reuse the html on every page kinda like a
template system
you could also functionize the html
include("functions.php");
print_header();
and in functions.php
html here
This will also just let the code be in the main file and call the html from
the functions.
-Dave
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Re: [PHP] Methods for creating HTML with PHP
Raditha Dissanayake wrote: How about just escaping out of php :-) and embedding the html direct? Jason Giangrande wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to write all my HTML using PHP. I could do this with a bunch of print statements or the like, but that doesn't seem like a real good solution. I noticed that PEAR has several packages for creating HTML. Has anyone used any of these packages? I'm particularly interested in the HTML_Common, HTML_Page, and HTML_CSS packages. The HTML_Page package, which to me seems like the one package that actually outputs HTML, is marked as "beta". Anyone know if there are any alternative packages that do a similar thing? Also, is it possible to download a package marked beta with PEAR, or does it need to be downloaded manually? Thanks, That's the thing. I'm looking for an alternative way of writing HTML into PHP pages. I did a few simple pages a while ago just using print statements instead of closing the PHP tag and then writing HTML. It made the code a little easier to follow. The problem is that print statements can add up fast, so using to many of them in one page is probably just as hard to follow as closing a PHP block, so you can write some HTML. That was why I was looking for an alternative way to write HTML in PHP pages. I tried the HTML_Page class from PEAR, but it seems to have some issues still. I guess that's why it's still in beta. I've decided I'll try and write something on my own for now that incorporates a few things I've seen in other classes (mainly HTML_Common, and HTML_Page). -- Jason Giangrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.giangrande.org http://www.dogsiview.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Methods for creating HTML with PHP
How about just escaping out of php :-) and embedding the html direct? Jason Giangrande wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to write all my HTML using PHP. I could do this with a bunch of print statements or the like, but that doesn't seem like a real good solution. I noticed that PEAR has several packages for creating HTML. Has anyone used any of these packages? I'm particularly interested in the HTML_Common, HTML_Page, and HTML_CSS packages. The HTML_Page package, which to me seems like the one package that actually outputs HTML, is marked as "beta". Anyone know if there are any alternative packages that do a similar thing? Also, is it possible to download a package marked beta with PEAR, or does it need to be downloaded manually? Thanks, -- Raditha Dissanayake. - http://www.radinks.com/print/upload.php SFTP, FTP and HTTP File Upload solutions -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
