PHP Fast Template - Summary (
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Many times, when
working with smaller projects, taking the time to separate the presentation from
logic is like taking the time to ask guests to leave the dinner table each time
a new dish is brought from the kitchen to hide where its coming from. Some
programmers have said if lines of code are greater than 1000, go ahead and
separate the two. There's no question that projects that are going to involve
100% database stored content can benefit from creating HTML templates and
parsing data through them with PHP and the FastTemplate class. Remember that
there are many tools for separating presentation and logic and the best one for
the job is the one that's desired. Make certain you have the right one before
the project gets too deep.
Appendix / NotesWhen installing
PHP4 and FastTemplate, it was necessary to edit a line of code in the
FastTemplate class in order for it to work properly.
Within the
parse_template function of the class this line was edited:
$template = ereg_replace("\{$key\}","$val","$template");
The curly brackets had not been escaped in the code so the
script ignored any variables in the HTML templates.
