Dependencies with templates

[TheRedDevil]

@nmeri17

That’s how I intend grabbing needed variables from the mother script and using them here. By “Dependencies with templates”, I’m trying to describe the child script depending on the mother for certain variables. The mother script already contains markup which, if the page was simply included, would cause all that markup to spill into the innocent new page.

A very basic and functional example of what I believe your trying to achieve could be:

function template($path, $global=null) {
  //Extract any global set values
  if (!empty($global)) {
     extract($global);
     }

  ob_start();
  include $path;
  $contents = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();

  return $contents;
  }

$global_array = array('pageOwner' => 1,
                      'info' => array()); //etc.

echo template('/path/to/template/file', $global_array); 

The key used in the global array decide the variable name it get when parsed in the function, i.e. ‘pageOwner’ become $pageOwner etc.

If you want to make your own solution, the code above can refactored into OOP with getter/setters etc. to fit what you need.

In the event you just need a basic template engine, Twig would not be a bad choice.