Fwd: Re: [Phplib-users] Using a template as the content of another template.

[Andrew C. <An...@Ev...>]

Well, I sent this last night but, CC'd it to Joe instead of to the 
list.  Too many mailing lists with different defaults for reply-to ...

Andrew

>Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:09:15 -0700
>To: Joe Cotellese <jco...@co...>
>From: Andrew Crawford <An...@Ev...>
>Subject: Re: [Phplib-users] Using a template as the content of another 
>template.
>Cc: Joe Cotellese <jco...@co...>
>
>Joe,
>
>Yes.  I don't know how standard this is but, I have been working with this 
>recently in an attempt to get complete separation of form, content, and 
>function.  It helps if you remember that all of the markers (replace items 
>in {brackets}) and places where blocks have been extracted act like 
>variables.  I don't think it matters whether you extract blocks or load files.
>
>So, if the main page template (the one with the {content} variable/marker) 
>is page_template.ihtml, and the form or other stuff you want to fill 
>{content} with is content_template.ihtml, you would probably want to do 
>something like this:
>
>    // Start the page template
>    $t = new Template;
>
>    // set the file to the content template
>    $t->set_file('some_content', 'content_template.ihtml');
>
>    // fill in the variables for the content template here
>
>    // parse the completed content area into a variable called content
>    $t->parse('content', 'some_content');
>
>    // set the file to the overall page template
>    $t->set_file('thispage', 'page_template.ihtml');
>
>    // content is already filled in, set any other variables
>    // for the page template here
>
>    // parse the finished page into out
>    $t->parse('out', 'thispage');
>
>    // output out
>    $t->p('out');
>
>If this is confusing, you might consider looking at:
>
>    http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/PHPLib/page1.html
>
>... and:
>
>    http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/david20000512.php3
>
>Andrew Crawford
>An...@Ev...
>
>At 10:32 AM 6/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just started using PHPLib about a week ago. I really like the template 
>>feature, it definitely works as advertised. I do however have one 
>>question that was not immediately evident from the documentation or 
>>mailing list archives.
>>
>>Does the PHPLib template system allow one template to be included into 
>>another template? For example, I have defined an overall site template 
>>that creates the general layout of my page. The only variable defined is 
>>{Content}. The idea then is to have Content filled out by information 
>>from a database or some separate file. This works great, but now I want 
>>to add a form to the site. Can I replace {Content} with the contents of 
>>another template that defined the page form or would it be better to 
>>generate the form programmatically from PHP?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Joe Cotellese