Before I proceed to demonstrate how to use the “TemplateProcessor” class, I need to remind you of how it looks, so it can be fresh in your mind. That said, here’s the corresponding definition for the class, as I wrote it originally in the first article:

// define 'TemplateProcessor' class
class TemplateProcessor {
    private $output='';// set default value for general class
output
    private $rowTag='p';// set default value for database row tag
    private $tags=array();// set default value for tags
    private $templateFile='default_template.htm';// set default
value for template file
    private $cacheFile='default_cache.txt';// set default value
for cache file
    private $expiry=10;// set default value for cache expiration
    public function __construct($tags=array()){
        if(count($tags)<1){
            throw new Exception('Invalid number of tags');
        }
        if($this->isCacheValid()){
            // read data from cache file
            $this->output=$this->readCache();
        }
        else{
            $this->tags=$tags;
            // read template file
            $this->output=file_get_contents($this->templateFile);
            // process template file
            $this->processTemplate($this->tags);
            // clean up empty tags
            $this->output=preg_replace("/{w}|}/",'',$this-
>output);
            // write compressed data to cache file
            $this->writeCache();
        }
        // send gzip encoding http header
        $this->sendEncodingHeader();
    }
    // check cache validity
    private function isCacheValid(){
        // determine if cache file is valid or not
        if(file_exists($this->cacheFile)&&filemtime($this-
>cacheFile)>(time()-$this->expiry)){
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
    // process template file
    private function processTemplate($tags){
        foreach($tags as $tag=>$data){
            // if data is array, traverse recursive array of tags
            if(is_array($data)){
                $this->output=preg_replace("/{$tag/",'',$this-
>output);
                $this->processTemplate($data);
            }
            // if data is a file, fetch processed file
            elseif(file_exists($data)){
                $data=$this->processFile($data);
            }
            // if data is a MySQL result set, obtain a formatted
list of database rows
            elseif(@get_resource_type($data)=='mysql result'){
                $rows='';
                while($row=mysql_fetch_row($data)){
                    $cols='';
                    foreach($row as $col){
                        $cols.='&nbsp;'.$col.'&nbsp;';
                    }
                    $rows.='<'.$this-
>rowTag.'>'.$cols.'</'.$this->rowTag.'>';
                }
                $data=$rows;
            }
            // if data contains the '[code]' elimiter, parse data
as PHP code
            elseif(substr($data,0,6)=='[code]'){
                $data=eval(substr($data,6));
            }
            $this->output=str_replace('{'.$tag.'}',$data,$this-
>output);
        }
    }
    // process input file
    private function processFile($file){
          ob_start();
          include($file);
          $contents=ob_get_contents();
          ob_end_clean();
          return $contents;
    }
    // write compressed data to cache file
    private function writeCache(){
        if(!$fp=fopen($this->cacheFile,'w')){
            throw new Exception('Error writing data to cache
file');
        }
        fwrite($fp,$this->getCompressedHTML());
        fclose($fp);
    }
    // read compressed data from cache file
    private function readCache(){
        if(!$cacheContents=file_get_contents($this->cacheFile)){
            throw new Exception('Error reading data from cache
file');
        }
        return $cacheContents;
    }
    // return overall output
    public function getHTML(){
          return $this->output;
    }
    // return compressed output
    private function getCompressedHTML(){
        // check if browser supports gzip encoding
        if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'],'gzip')){
            // start output buffer
            ob_start();
            // echo page contents to output buffer
            echo $this->output;
            // crunch (X)HTML content & compress it with gzip
            $this->output=gzencode(preg_replace("/
(rn|n)/","",ob_get_contents()),9);
            // clean up output buffer
            ob_end_clean();
            // return compressed (X)HTML content
            return $this->output;
        }
        return false;
    }
    // send gzip encoding http header
    public function sendEncodingHeader(){
        header('Content-Encoding: gzip');
    }
}

I suppose at this point, after listing the “TemplateProcessor” class, you’re ready to see an illustrative hands-on example, in order to learn how you can use it for parsing your template files. Want to learn how this will be achieved? Please, read the next few lines.