[Phplib-users] Templates -- lists vs. rows

[Matthew L. <lei...@ma...>]

Hi,

Say I have an array of link names and URLs that I want to put into an HTML 
page.  If I want a list, it's easy enough.  The template contains

<!-- main.tpl -->
<ul>
<!-- BEGIN each_link -->
<a href="{URL}">{TEXT}</a>
<!-- END each_link -->
</ul>

and the code is 

$template->set_block('main','each_link','EACH_LINK');
foreach ($links as $url => $text) {
  $template->set_var('URL',$url);
  $template->set_var('TEXT',$text);	
  $template->parse('each_link','EACH_LINK',true);
}
$template->parse('main','MAIN');
$template->print('MAIN');

But what if instead of a list I want this?

[ <a href="url1">text1</a> | <a href="url2">text2</a> | ... | 
  <a href="urln">textn</a> ]

There should be a way to write the two templates so that a single snippet
generate both.  The problem is the divider, which comes after each link
but the last.  

How can this be done while keeping all presentation data in the templates 
and all logic in the PHP script?

Any thoughts are appreciated.
--Matt

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