<!-- Description: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This file illustrates a simple strategy to get a php driven template system running. Notice the start and stop of each file definition. This script assumes all 3 files are in the same directory - probably not best practice, but best for illustration. Code has not been tested - expect a PHP syntax error or two.--><!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FILE: tpl.main.php --><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>%title%</title> <meta name="description" content="%description%" /> <meta name="keywords" content="%keywords%" /> </head> <body> %content% </body></html><!-- END TEMPLATE FILE: tpl.main.php --><!-- BEGIN CONTENT FILE: home.php --><?php set_tpl_var('title','Home Page'); set_tpl_var('description','This is our home page.'); set_tpl_var('keywords','These are key words');?><h1>Home Page</h1><p>This is the home page.</p><!-- END CONTENT FILE: home.php --><!-- BEGIN CONTROL FILE: index.php --><?php $template_variables = array(); function set_tpl_var($name,val) { global $template_variables; $template_variables[$name] = $val; } // Load template file ob_start(); include 'tpl.main.php'; $template = ob_get_clean(); // Load content file ob_start(); include 'home.php'; $content = ob_get_clean(); // Merge content into template $output = str_replace('%content%',$content,$template); // Find and replace all template variables if(preg_match_all('/%(.*?)%',$output,$tpl_vars)) : foreach($tpl_vars[1] as $tpl_var) : $find = '%'.$tpl_var.'%'; $replace = isset($template_variables[$tpl_var]) ? $template_variables[$tpl_var] : ''; $output = str_replace($find,$replace,$output); endforeach; endif; // Output page echo $output;?><!-- END CONTROL FILE: index.php -->