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PHP-HTML Templates: A New Working Relationship - Page 4
by: PHP Builder Staff
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April 3, 2002
Coders will need to prepare a script that displays the Address book entries as such:
handler.php
<?php
1: $template_filename = "TEMPLATE.html";
2:
3: ..... database extraction codes (omitted) ....
4:
5: /* =============================================================== */
6: /* ====================== Replacement Rules ====================== */
7: /* =============================================================== */
8:
9: $replacement_rules = array (
10: array ("<!--NAME-DATA-->", "0"),
11: array ("<!--ADDRESS-DATA-->", "1")
12: );
13:
14: /* =============================================================== */
15:
16: $n_fcontents = template_parser ($template_filename, $replacement_rules, $recordset_array);
17: while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($n_fcontents))
18: {
19: echo "$line";
20: }
?>
What the above script does is to set rules to display our
database-retreived record fields in appropriate columns in the HTML
tables. These rules will be stored in
$replacement_rules array
as defined above.
The elements of
$replacement_rules array simply let our script know
how to "fill in the blanks".
The variable :
$recordset_array is a 2-dimension array that contains
records which we retrieved from database.
+---------------------------------+
| Alvin | Block 112 Bedok Road |
+---------------------------------+
| Robert | 23 Livingstone Road |
+---------------------------------+
:
:
+---------------------------------+
| John | 556 Everton Park Road |
+---------------------------------+
Line 10 (and line 11) of the code simply is a "rule" that instructs
PHP script to replace occurances of the string
<!--NAME-DATA-->
with FIELD 1 (array is "zero-based") of the recordset provided
in $recordset_array array.
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