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Let's say you have a file, we'll call it 'one.ihtml', (The name, as well as the extension is completely arbitrary) and the template class is already instantiated inside object variable $T:

one.ihtml:

My name is {username} and I want to tell you {message}. 

First off, we need to define a variable for the entire file..

<? 
$T->set_file('input_one', 'one.ihtml'); 
?> 

And there's two variables in this file, 'username' and 'message'. We'll need to define these:

<? 
$T->set_var('username', 'Henry'); 
$T->set_var('message', 'a message'); 
?> 

Now that we've set the variables in memory, we want to take the file variable and create some output:

<?
$T->parse('Output', 'input_one'); 
?> 

Now, we have a total of four variables:

1) 'input_one' contains the original file we loaded. It contains two other variables within it.

2) 'username' contains the text string 'Henry'.

3) 'message' contains the string 'a message'.

4) 'Output' contains the original file with the variables replaced with the values we assigned... 'My name is Henry and I want to tell you a message.'

Likely as not you want to print the 'Output' variable to the screen. To do this, use pparse instead of parse:

<? 
$T->pparse('Output', 'input_one'); 
?> 

or just print the feecback of the parse function:

<? 
echo $Tparse('Output', 'input_one'); 
?>

Simple so far? Read on...

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