Without using Smarty, does anyone have any ideas how it can be done?

Right now the templating system I have will just output PHP code as HTML, I want it to run the PHP code and process it as well.

http://www.php.net/eval -- be very, very, very, careful how you use it.


Did I mention be careful?

i wrote this lil thingy... well it uses files instead of mysql in this case but you could change this for you needs.


function gettemplate($template){

STATIC $templates;
$relpath = THIS_ROOT . "/templates/";

if(!$ext = strpos($template,".")){
echo("Error: Function gettemplate($template). No valid filename!<br>");
return false;
}
$cache = substr($template,0,$ext);

if(!$templates[$cache]){
if(!file_exists($relpath.$template)){
echo("Error: Function gettemplate($template). No templatefile found in path \"$relpath\" !<br>");
return Null;
} else {
$template = implode("",file($relpath.$template));
$template = addslashes($template);
$templates[$cache] = str_replace("\\'","'",$template);
}
}
return $templates[$cache];
}



useage:


eval("echo (\"".gettemplate("yourtemplatefile.tpl")."\");");


njoy

Yeah, so far eval is the only way I've found that works.

Thanks for the input, much oblidged

Yes eval is the way to go for you but it can be a little difficult to manage your application with the eval as it is bit more difficult and messy than say Smarty.