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how do i convert my includes to {sidebar} or strings to {whatever}?

Without using any skinning engine. i feel like this is a newb question lol

2

If you take this ‘template’…


<html>
  <head>
    <title>Demo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="content">
      {content}
    </div>
    <div id="sidebar">
      {sidebar}
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

…and add apply this piece of code to it…


<?php
  preg_replace(
    '~{([a-z]+)}~i',
    '<?php include \\'$1.php\\'; ?>',
    $subject
  );
?>

…it converts it to this…


<html>
  <head>
    <title>Demo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="content">
      <?php include 'content.php'; ?>
    </div>
    <div id="sidebar">
      <?php include 'sidebar.php'; ?>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

…you can then pass this to [fphp]eval/fphp for PHP to do its magic with…


<?php
echo eval(sprintf(
  '?>&#37;s<?php',
  preg_replace(
    '~{([a-z]+)}~i',
    '<?php include \\'$1.php\\'; ?>',
    $subject
  )
));
?>

:wink:

3

<?php echo $sidebar ?>

It’s not a noob question, it’s noobs that maintain you need to do that in the first place. If you have need of a templating system for reasons other than “using curly braces” that’s another story.