Advanced PHP

http://smarty.php.net/

• Probably the most complex and complete system

• Loops

• Conditional sections

• Variable modifiers

• Plugins

• Built-in functions

• Configuration files

• More... (See Andrei and Sterling's tutorial.)

Code


<?php
include 'tplutil.inc';
require 'Smarty.class.php';

$tpl = new Smarty();
$tpl->assign('TITLE', 'my title');
$tpl->assign('USER', get_user());
$tpl->assign('USERS', get_users());

$tpl->display('smarty.tpl');

Template

<h1>{$TITLE|capitalize}</h1>
<form><select>
{html_options values=$USERS output=$USERS selected=$USER}
</select></form>