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July 21, 2005 at 10:51PM The World’s Simplest (decent) PHP Templating Engine...

...is PHP, so why not use it?

function include_view($view, $vars=NULL) {
    # Start buffering the generated text.
    ob_start();

    # Process the view.
    if (!is_null($vars)) {
        extract($vars, EXTR_OVERWRITE | EXTR_REFS);
    }
    include("views/$view.php");

    # Grab the generated content and clean up.
    $content = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();

    return $content;
}

Comments

1 On July 22, 2005 at 23:08, Keith Devens wrote:

I do just about the same thing.

2 On July 23, 2005 at 21:03, Keith wrote:

I thought you used Smarty. Good to see you’re not though. I’ve never understood the logic behind using the likes of it.

3 On July 24, 2005 at 19:01, Keith Devens wrote:

Back when I was in my architecture astronaut phase trying to write a web framework I played around with Smarty for a bit trying to fit it into the type of design I wanted. It worked, but required a huge nasty hack. I’m out of my astronaut phase now anyway :)