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PHP-HTML Templates: A New Working Relationship
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>
| Comments: | ||
| RE: I need help making a game | G-Kill@ | 12/05/04 12:27 |
| PHP Thread | Hemangini | 11/21/04 01:47 |
| PHP Thread | Hemangini | 11/21/04 01:47 |
| templating for php BY php??? | Kyle Simpson | 09/04/03 18:36 |
| ideas for email script | smitty | 03/01/03 12:07 |
| RE: How do I syndicate their news? | Capucera Kamar | 01/26/03 11:03 |
| RE: Outdated.. | Pemga | 01/09/03 08:54 |
| RE: This is convoluted | lcoughlin | 01/06/03 11:59 |
| RE: This is convoluted | Mladen | 10/14/02 05:06 |
| RE: Template-like feature | ednark | 10/11/02 00:37 |
| RE: Not very smart, not! | Andrew | 10/05/02 22:44 |
| Templates | Huyiono | 09/26/02 19:31 |
| RE: Template-like feature | Nepto | 09/18/02 07:09 |
| Help Me | Yuri | 09/16/02 22:28 |
| RE: This is convoluted | mike | 09/09/02 09:14 |
| Template-like feature | Richard H | 09/08/02 21:14 |
| php online book | gunuz | 08/12/02 08:35 |
| RE: Perl still looks better after reviewing this. | Matthew | 08/11/02 03:49 |
| RE: Doesn't work | batman | 08/06/02 08:56 |
| Thanx | Robert | 08/05/02 17:05 |
| RE: Perl still looks better after reviewing this. | Jason | 08/03/02 16:49 |
| RE: Quotes in FastTemplate | Renato Neves | 08/02/02 15:10 |
| Quotes in FastTemplate | Renato Neves | 07/29/02 15:24 |
| RE: Not very smart | Jason | 07/23/02 09:56 |
| a php code | S3c|Or | 07/22/02 17:31 |
| RE: Not very smart | jimson | 07/19/02 03:10 |
| RE: Fast Templates | Rory | 07/18/02 23:53 |
| RE: why PHP | Rory | 07/18/02 23:50 |
| columns or? | Robert | 07/14/02 01:03 |
| RE: Not very smart | loconet | 07/10/02 16:51 |
| php includes and gzip compression?? | ian | 07/08/02 00:02 |
| RE: Perl still looks better after reviewing this. | jfp | 07/07/02 10:46 |
| Templates done for speed | Ben Smith | 07/03/02 13:01 |
| RE: HTML variables via PHP to Access | Toyvo Yanski | 06/30/02 16:33 |
| Re:templates | sky | 06/27/02 23:37 |
| Perl still looks better after reviewing this. | Webmeister | 06/27/02 16:36 |
| RE: Not very smart | Brian | 06/25/02 13:25 |
| long live vlibTemplate ... | Kelvin Jones | 06/25/02 11:19 |
| RE: HTML variables via PHP to Access | Gary L | 06/25/02 11:11 |
| RE: help me ASAP | adhi | 06/24/02 04:07 |
| RE: HTML variables via PHP to Access | Allison Smith | 06/23/02 14:40 |
| Good idea! | Vingerhoed Johan | 06/22/02 17:51 |
| Wee Lep: Great Job!! | Ben | 06/20/02 17:52 |
| RE: HTML variables via PHP to Access | Ben | 06/20/02 17:49 |
| RE: help me ASAP | Ben | 06/20/02 17:43 |
| help me ASAP | diah | 06/19/02 12:06 |
| HTML variables via PHP to Access | Heidi Grange | 06/18/02 06:58 |
| let gets some perspective when posting replys | chris | 06/18/02 06:43 |
| RE: This is convoluted | Steve | 06/14/02 16:10 |
| RE:This is convoluted (Lets see this article) | The_WolfII | 06/13/02 20:39 |
| RE: Outdated.. | The_WolfII | 06/13/02 20:38 |
| RE: Do you do scripts for free? | Ashish | 06/10/02 05:00 |
| RE:This is convoluted (Lets see this article) | bill | 06/07/02 14:10 |
| RE: What is the code for... | Bill Berggren | 06/03/02 03:34 |
| RE: why PHP | ARS | 05/31/02 20:42 |
| RE: why PHP | Tim | 05/31/02 17:47 |
| What is the code for... | Constance | 05/30/02 19:07 |
| RE: why PHP | kaizer - dot | 05/27/02 13:22 |
| HTML call PHP | Phoebus | 05/26/02 15:46 |
| using regular expression will be of gr8 help | Hassan | 05/21/02 02:25 |
| RE: why PHP | Jason Marquand | 05/17/02 01:06 |
| How about using brackets instead? | Jon Wood | 05/16/02 13:12 |
| Difference with FastTemplate? | Snowman | 05/16/02 07:49 |
| RE: This is convoluted | James Elkins | 05/15/02 17:14 |
| Designers inserting comments for programmers | James Elkins | 05/15/02 17:07 |
| RE: This is convoluted | Digger Dirt Guy | 05/14/02 11:43 |
| LDAP in PHP code | Nguyen Minh Tuyen | 05/14/02 03:26 |
| And what about ETS? | fmarcia | 05/13/02 18:08 |
| What do you think about ModeliXe ? | weber | 05/13/02 08:22 |
| forms and databases | lane | 05/09/02 00:10 |
| Wow! This is complicated! | Matt | 05/08/02 15:49 |
| RE: This is convoluted | Erik Stephens | 05/05/02 01:33 |
| Template benchmarks | Christopher Brown-Floyd | 05/02/02 01:17 |
| RE: why PHP | Matt | 04/30/02 16:35 |
| RE: Need help | riot makaveli | 04/30/02 05:11 |
| How do I syndicate their news? | Add backend.php | 04/29/02 14:09 |
| help!!! | Marcus | 04/28/02 12:20 |
| Doesn't work | Stefan Horomnea | 04/27/02 18:39 |
| RE: why PHP | Jhakas Pundit | 04/26/02 17:58 |
| help me to learn HTML | anosh | 04/26/02 14:46 |
| RE: phplib templates | Victor | 04/26/02 08:25 |
| Would this be considered a template system? | Chauncey Thorn | 04/25/02 23:23 |
| I need help making a game | Rob | 04/24/02 14:31 |
| phplib templates | Udi landau | 04/23/02 10:55 |
| RE: HTML TAGES. | bart | 04/23/02 10:09 |
| Template using associative arrays | Allen | 04/21/02 23:28 |
| HTML TAGES. | muhammad bilal quzafi | 04/18/02 10:30 |
| so what is it Templates or XML? | Bill | 04/17/02 15:21 |
| RE: Do you do scripts for free? | Jason | 04/16/02 09:28 |
| This is convoluted | Johnathan Leppert | 04/16/02 03:15 |
| Need help | risto | 04/15/02 18:43 |
| What should go where? | risto | 04/15/02 18:29 |
| RE: why PHP | Rod K | 04/14/02 10:23 |
| Do you do scripts for free? | Katrina | 04/13/02 13:41 |
| RE: how to get specified data from .dat file | Denny | 04/12/02 15:48 |
| RE: why PHP | Denny | 04/12/02 15:14 |
| RE: why PHP | Matt | 04/11/02 15:54 |
| Left me more confused than when I started | Mark | 04/11/02 14:31 |
| how to get specified data from .dat file | Krishna Tamrakar | 04/11/02 08:12 |
| My own little template program | David Fischer | 04/10/02 13:45 |
| RE: why PHP | Rod K | 04/10/02 00:46 |
| My Tutorial -> SMARTY + PHPLIBS OOHFORM | Azril Nazli b Alias | 04/09/02 22:46 |
| RE: why PHP | Chris | 04/09/02 18:19 |
| Re: A REAL new working relationship | Matt | 04/09/02 16:26 |
| A REAL new working relationship | Matt | 04/09/02 16:20 |
| Funny, same thought | Chris | 04/09/02 08:24 |
| RE: How about using IntegratedTemplate? | Aloner | 04/07/02 15:02 |
| RE: The best template-engine! | Aloner | 04/07/02 14:58 |
| other language solution | Tim Parkin | 04/07/02 11:55 |
| The best 'real world' templating engine | Tim Parkin | 04/07/02 11:53 |
| RE: What's wrong with XML? | Junkie Doodle | 04/06/02 20:42 |
| RE: What's wrong with XML? | Captain Proton | 04/06/02 05:11 |
| why PHP | prashanth | 04/06/02 04:12 |
| RE: Not very smart | vincent | 04/06/02 04:02 |
| RE: What's wrong with XML? | vincent | 04/06/02 03:41 |
| What's wrong with XML? | Bruno | 04/05/02 10:36 |
| The best template-engine! | Linuxgod2000 | 04/05/02 10:26 |
| Fast Templates | Rodney O | 04/05/02 08:39 |
| RE: How about: MAKE YOUR DESIGNERS LEARN XSL | Dude | 04/05/02 07:43 |
| RE: How about: MAKE YOUR DESIGNERS LEARN XSL | Paolo Dina | 04/05/02 01:56 |
| Creating DataBase and spreadsheets. | Monica Lamani | 04/04/02 23:25 |
| How about using IntegratedTemplate? | sheep | 04/04/02 21:13 |
| RE: How about: MAKE YOUR DESIGNERS LEARN XSL | kybosh | 04/04/02 15:41 |
| How about: MAKE YOUR DESIGNERS LEARN XSL | Maximo Migliari | 04/04/02 12:33 |
| Not very smart | dotvoid | 04/04/02 08:22 |
| RE: Outdated.. | Bob Moore | 04/04/02 06:45 |
| RE: Outdated.. | vulgate | 04/04/02 04:00 |
| Outdated.. | Captain Proton | 04/03/02 14:18 |
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