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PHP-HTML Templates: A New Working Relationship
by: PHP Builder Staff
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April 3, 2002
By Wee Lep
From preface of the PHP manual, the following states the definition
of PHP scripting: "PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language.
... The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write
dynamically generated pages quickly."
The phrase "HTML-embedded scripting language" reminds me of my days
in "dot-coms" ("dot-gones" for now). I was involved in the development
of corporate portal sites. My working counterparts were mainly
webpage and graphic designers with little or no programming knowledge.
Since PHP is a "HTML-embedded scripting language", so it becomes
natural to embed my PHP codes in the web pages designed by the
designer folks. Often, I will have to embed PHP codes in HTML pages
to dynamically display the records which I retrieved from database(es).
Take an "Address Book" application for example. We normally store the address book entries : "Name" and "Address" in database. :
+---------------------------------+
| NAME | Address |
+---------------------------------+
| Alvin | Block 112 Bedok Road |
+---------------------------------+
| Robert | 23 Livingstone Road |
+---------------------------------+
:
:
+---------------------------------+
| John | 556 Everton Park Road |
+---------------------------------+
When the time comes to display them in HTML pages, we will normally insert our PHP codes in the HTML page like this :
<table>
<tr>
<td> <b>Name</b></td>
<td> <b>Address</b></td>
</tr>
<?php
..... database extraction codes (omitted) ....
for ($row_nbr=0; $row_nbr < $NUMBER_OF_RECORDS; $row_nbr++)
{
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td> " . $recordset_array[$row_nbr][0] . " </b></td>\n";
echo "<td> " . $recordset_array[$row_nbr][1] . " </b></td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
}
?>
</table>
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