Have you ever been annoyed by template engines that force you to keep your templates in flat files? Ever feel like that Content Management System you just created isn't as dynamic as you originally thought? If you have ever felt like this, you may benefit from having your templates in a database.
Now we have all the functions created, we can simply use the code that I wrote at the beginning of this tutorial.
<?php
// Simple Templating Engine // using a database tutorial. // Written by Matt Eunson
// Define database variables - you have to change these $Server = "localhost"; $Username = "me"; $Pass = "****"; $Database = "template";
// Now connect to the database mysql_connect($Server, $Username, $Pass) or die("Couldn't connect to database."); mysql_selectdb($Database) or die("Couldn't select database: $Database");
// Include the template functions include_once "template.php";
// Start our page $Title = "My Site"; pageHeader($Title);
// Some content here... echo "Welcome to my site.";
// And close the page pageFooter();
?>
If you run this script, then the result will be the words "Welcome to my site" in your browser, along with the title "My Site" in your browser title bar.
And that just about rounds it up. Here you have a very simple, but working template engine using a database. You could extend this to include an admin control panel for editing your templates on the fly, or you could add new features to it. Anyway, thanks for reading this tutorial, and I hope you enjoyed it.
