I want to create my own template for building my next web projects.
But my problem is that I am trying to create my own template system with my own function, also to learn more about coding on my on aswell.
I'm trying to improve my code to be me clean/smooth as I code.
But now I ran into this problem
a-function-file.php
<?php
$Website_info = array("SiteTitle"=>"CLiCK", "BaseUrl"=>"http://localhost/CLick/");
//css styles her
$website_styles = array(
array("src"=>"libs/css/bootstrap.min.css", "type"=>"text/css"),
array("src"=>"libs/themes/click.css", "type"=>"text/css")
);
//javascripts her
$website_scripts = array(
array("src"=>"libs/js/bootstrap.min.js", "type"=>"text/javascript")
);
$website_navigation_top_links = array(
array("link"=>"index.php","name"=>"Home")
);
function Click_styles()
{
global $website_styles;
$styleOutput = "";
foreach ($website_styles as $key => $CssStyle):
$styleOutput .= "<link href='".$CssStyle["src"]."' rel='stylesheet' type='".$CssStyle["type"]."'>\n";
endforeach;
return $styleOutput;
}
//my function to create html codes within head tags
function Click_header()
{
//Getting website info into function
global $Website_info;
global $website_styles;
$ImpotedStyles = Click_styles();
//creating the html (can maybe be created more clean later)
$Header_output = "<title>".$Website_info["SiteTitle"]."</title>\n";
$Header_output .= "<base href='".$Website_info["BaseUrl"]."' />\n";
$Header_output = $Header_output.$ImpotedStyles;
// return the complied output (as HTML)
return $Header_output;
}
?>
So far so good, because this works if I write
<?php echo Click_header();?>
But I want to use the function like this with, by passing it a function as an argument
<?php
//the function that doesnt work
function printHTML($ThisShouldBeAFunctionNotAVar, $Description="none") {
echo $ThisShouldBeAFunctionNotAVar
}
?>
<?php
//how I want to use the function
printHTML(Click_header(), "The website header");
//and maybe if I had a footer I could display the return of that function too
printHTML(Click_foter(), "a smart footer function");
?>
I hope you can help me with this or get a better understanding for maybe something smarter
I fount this solution on my own
<?php
function printHTML($CustomFunction,$Description="")
{
$function = ($CustomFunction;
echo $function();
}
?>
Related
I have created my own little PHP framework for fun, however, I am having trouble passing variables from bootstrap to the views....
if I put an echo,print_r,var_dump my target variable in the bootstrap, the output is displayed in the browser before the tag... yet the target var in bootstrap.php is not available in the view, it is coming up as "" even though at the top of the page it is being output correctly....
Somethings I noticed from similar questions:
- The target variable is not being over written
- The include target path is correct and the file exists
- The file is only being included one time (include_once is only fired once)
Any ideas are greatly appreciated, I am pulling my hair out over here lol...
Source Code
https://gist.github.com/jeffreyroberts/f330ad4a164adda221aa
If you just want to display your site name, I think you can use a constant like that :
define('SITE_NAME', "Jeff's Site");
And then display it in your index.tpl :
<?php echo SITE_NAME; ?>
Or, you can send your variables to the view by extending a little bit your JLR_Core_Views :
class JLR_Core_Views
{
private $data;
public function loadView($templatePath, $data = array())
{
$this->data = $data;
$templatePath = JLR_ROOT . '/webroot/' . $templateName . '.tpl';
if(file_exists($templatePath)) {
// Yes, I know about the vuln here, this is just an example;
ob_start();
include_once $templatePath;
return ob_get_clean();
}
}
function __get($name)
{
return (isset($this->data[$name]))
? $this->data[$name]
: null;
}
}
Then, you can call your template like that :
$view = new JLR_Core_Views();
$view->loadView("index", array("sitename" => "Jeff's Site"));
And here is your index.tpl :
<?php echo $this->siteName; ?>
Below is another example of what you can do.
First, you create this class in order to store all the variables you want :
<?php
class JLR_Repository {
private static $data = array();
public function set($name, $value) {
self::$data[$name] = $value;
}
public function get($name) {
return (isset(self::$data[$name]))
? self::$data[$name]
: null;
}
}
?>
Then, when you want to store something in it :
JLR_Repository::set("sitename", "Jeff's Site");
And in your index.tpl :
<?php echo JLR_Repository::get("sitename"); ?>
try using the 'global' keyword - http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php
I am trying to build a wordpress-like plugin for my own CMS using str_replace. So when user saves something like '[do_something]' into page content, it will be replaced by a prebuild function.
example:
<?php function do_something() {
// search database and display something
}
<?php
echo str_replace("[do_something]","<?php do_something(); ?>",$page_content);
?>
However using echo it returns
"<?php do_something(); ?>"
as text instead of php script and fails to execute.
Any suggestion?
UPDATED
So finally, I have come up with this:
function plugin($page_content){
$plugins = array(
'[function1]' => 'function1();',
'[function2]' => 'fucntion2();'
);
foreach($plugins as $plugin => $function) {
if (strpos($page_content, $plugin) !== false) {
eval($function);
break;
}
}
}
:)
Try this:
<?php
eval(str_replace('[do_something]', 'do_something();', $page_content));
?>
But please remember that using eval especially with user's input is a very bad practise.
Alright, I'm using a page creating class I found as below but when I want to use a php page -that again includes and uses a class file- for the content it either echoes on the top or the bottom of the page... I even tried to make the page a function() and call it at the $Content string but no use, again it echoed on the top of the page... How can i use a php page as a content in this class, or what should i change to use a php file?
Please keep in mind that I'm new to classes so feel free to assume some beginner mistakes.
<?php
class Page {
var $Title;
var $Keywords;
var $Content;
function Display( ) {
echo "<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n";
$this->DisplayTitle( );
$this->DisplayKeywords( );
echo "\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n";
echo $this->Content;
echo "\n</BODY>\n</HTML>\n";
}
function DisplayTitle( ) {
echo "<TITLE>" . $this->Title . "</TITLE>\n";
}
function DisplayKeywords( ) {
echo '<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="' . $this->Keywords . '">';
}
function SetContent( $Data ) {
$this->Content = $Data;
}
}
?>
Usage:
<?php
include "page.class";
$Sample = new Page;
$Content = "<P>I want my php file's contents here.</P>";
$Sample->Title = "Using Classes in PHP";
$Sample->Keywords = "PHP, Classes";
$Sample->SetContent( $Content );
$Sample->Display( );
?>
What if I wanted to make the content something like $Content = " < ? echo 'test'; ? >"; I know this isn't valid but what i'm trying to do is something like that or something like $Content = " output of the whateversinhere.php ";. how should I object orient another page therefore getting its contents into a string here?
You should NOT echo anything inside your class, instead the class should have a method getMarkup(), which will return a string containing the whole markup. Then you can echo that string in your view.
Additional tipps:
variables and method names start with a small letter!
title and keywords should have getters and setters too
make your variables private (private $title, etc.)
let me clean this up for you, you will notice some changes:
class Page
{
private $title = 'No Title';
private $keywords = array();
private $content = '';
public function setTitle($title)
{
$this->title = (string)$title;
}
public function addKeywords($keywords)
{
$this->keywords = array_merge($this->keywords, (func_num_args() > 1) ? func_get_args() : (array)$keywords;
}
function setContent($content)
{
$this->content = $content;
}
function appendContent($content)
{
$this->content .= $content;
}
function prependContent($content)
{
$this->content = $content . $this->content;;
}
private function display()
{
/*
* Display output here
*/
echo $this->title;
echo implode(',',str_replace(',','',$this->title));
echo $this->contents;
}
}
pretty simple usage:
$Page = new Page;
$Page->setTitle("Hello World");
$page->addKeywords("keyword1","keyword2","keyword3","keyword4");
//Content
$this->setContent("World");
$this->prependContent("Hello");
$this->appendContent(".");
//Display
$this->display();
Just got to fill in the blanks, you will learn as time goes on that you should not be using html directly within your class, and that you would split the above into several class such as Head,Body,Footer,Doctype and have a page class that brings them all together.
Use Output Control Functions.
<?php
include "page.class";
$Sample = new Page;
ob_start();
include "foobar.php";//What you want to include.
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$Sample->Title = "Using Classes in PHP";
$Sample->Keywords = "PHP, Classes";
$Sample->SetContent($content);
$Sample->Display( );
?>
So I'm setting up a system that has a lot of emails, and variable replacement within it, so I'm writing a class to manage some variable replacement for templates stored in the database.
Here's a brief example:
// template is stored in db, so that's how this would get loaded in
$template = "Hello, %customer_name%, thank you for contacting %website_name%";
// The array of replacements is built manually and passed to the class
// with actual values being called from db
$replacements = array('%customer_name%'=>'Bob', '%website_name%'=>'Acme');
$rendered = str_replace(array_keys($replacements), $replacements, $template);
Now, that works well and good for single var replacements, basic stuff. However, there are some places where there should be a for loop, and I'm lost how to implement it.
The idea is there'd be a template like this:
"hello, %customer_name%, thank you for
requesting information on {products}"
Where, {products} would be an array passed to the template, which the is looped over for products requested, with a format like:
Our product %product_name% has a cost
of %product_price%. Learn more at
%product_url%.
So an example rendered version of this would be:
"hello, bob, thank you for requesting
information on:
Our product WidgetA has a cost of $1.
Learn more at example/A
Our product WidgetB has a cost of $2.
Learn more at example/B
Our product WidgetC has a cost of $3.
Learn more at example/C.
What's the best way to accomplish this?
Well, I really dont see the point in a template engine that uses repalcements/regex
PHP Is already a template engine, when you write <?php echo $var?> its just like doing <{$var}> or {$var}
Think of it this way, PHP Already translates <?php echo '<b>hello</b>'?> into <b>hello</b> by its engine, so why make it do everything 2 times over.
The way i would implement a template engine is like so
Firstly create a template class
class Template
{
var $vars = array();
function __set($key,$val)
{
$this->vars[$key] = $val;
}
function __get($key)
{
return isset($this->vars[$key]) ? $this->vars[$key] : false;
}
function output($tpl = false)
{
if($tpl === false)
{
die('No template file selected in Template::output(...)');
}
if(!file_exists(($dir = 'templates/' . $tpl . '.php')))
{
die(sprintf('Tpl file does not exists (%s)',$dir));
}
new TemplateLoader($dir,$this->vars);
return true;
}
}
This is what you use in your login such as index.php, you will set data just like an stdClass just google it if your unsure. and when you run the output command it sends the data and tpl to the next class below.
And then create a standalone class to compile the tpl file within.
class TemplateLoader
{
private $vars = array();
private $_vars = array(); //hold vars set within the tpl file
function __construct($file,$variables)
{
$this->vars = $variables;
//Start the capture;
ob_start();
include $file;
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); //Clean it
//Return here if you wish
echo $contents;
}
function __get($key)
{
return isset($this->vars[$key]) ? $this->vars[$key] : (isset($this->_vars[$key]) ? $this->_vars[$key] : false) : false;
}
function __set($key,$val)
{
$this->_vars[$key] = $val;
return true;
}
function bold($key)
{
return '<strong>' . $this->$key . '</string>';
}
}
The reason we keep this seperate is so it has its own space to run in, you just load your tpl file as an include in your constructor so it only can be loaded once, then when the file is included it has access to all the data and methods within TemplateLoader.
Index.php
<?php
require_once 'includes/Template.php';
require_once 'includes/TemplateLoader.php';
$Template = new Template();
$Template->foo = 'somestring';
$Template->bar = array('some' => 'array');
$Template->zed = new stdClass(); // Showing Objects
$Template->output('index'); // loads templates/index.php
?>
Now here we dont really want to mix html with this page because by seperating the php and the view / templates you making sure all your php has completed because when you send html or use html it stops certain aspects of your script from running.
templates/index.php
header
<h1><?php $this->foo;?></h1>
<ul>
<?php foreach($this->bar as $this->_foo):?>
<li><?php echo $this->_foo; ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<p>Testing Objects</p>
<?php $this->sidebar = $this->foo->show_sidebar ? $this->foo->show_sidebar : false;?>
<?php if($this->sidebar):?>
Showing my sidebar.
<?php endif;?>
footer
Now here we can see that were mixing html with php but this is ok because in ehre you should only use basic stuff such as Foreach,For etc. and Variables.
NOTE: IN the TemplateLoader Class you can add a function like..
function bold($key)
{
return '<strong>' . $this->$key . '</string>';
}
This will allow you to increase your actions in your templates so bold,italic,atuoloop,css_secure,stripslashs..
You still have all the normal tools such as stripslashes/htmlentites etc.
Heres a small example of the bold.
$this->bold('foo'); //Returns <strong>somestring</string>
You can add lots of tools into the TempalteLoader class such as inc() to load other tpl files, you can develop a helper system so you can go $this->helpers->jquery->googleSource
If you have any more questions feel free to ask me.
----------
An example of storing in your database.
<?php
if(false != ($data = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM tpl_catch where item_name = \'index\' AND item_save_time > '.time() - 3600 .' LIMIT 1 ORDER BY item_save_time DESC')))
{
if(myslq_num_rows($data) > 0)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_assc($data);
die($row[0]['item_content']);
}else
{
//Compile it with the sample code in first section (index.php)
//Followed by inserting it into the database
then print out the content.
}
}
?>
If you wish to store your tpl files including PHP then that's not a problem, within Template where you passing in the tpl file name just search db instead of the filesystem
$products = array('...');
function parse_products($matches)
{
global $products;
$str = '';
foreach($products as $product) {
$str .= str_replace('%product_name%', $product, $matches[1]); // $matches[1] is whatever is between {products} and {/products}
}
return $str;
}
$str = preg_replace_callback('#\{products}(.*)\{/products}#s', 'parse_products', $str);
The idea is to find string between {products} and {products}, pass it to some function, do whatever you need to do with it, iterating over $products array.
Whatever the function returns replaces whole "{products}[anything here]{/products}".
The input string would look like that:
Requested products: {products}%product_name%{/products}
I have simple template that's html mostly and then pulls some stuff out of SQL via PHP and I want to include this template in three different spots of another php file. What is the best way to do this? Can I include it and then print the contents?
Example of template:
Price: <?php echo $price ?>
and, for example, I have another php file that will show the template file only if the date is more than two days after a date in SQL.
The best way is to pass everything in an associative array.
class Template {
public function render($_page, $_data) {
extract($_data);
include($_page);
}
}
To build the template:
$data = array('title' => 'My Page', 'text' => 'My Paragraph');
$Template = new Template();
$Template->render('/path/to/file.php', $data);
Your template page could be something like this:
<h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $text; ?></p>
Extract is a really nifty function that can unpack an associative array into the local namespace so that you can just do stuff like echo $title;.
Edit: Added underscores to prevent name conflicts just in case you extract something containing a variable '$page' or '$data'.
Put your data in an array/object and pass it to the following function as a second argument:
function template_contents($file, $model) {
if (!is_file($file)) {
throw new Exception("Template not found");
}
ob_start();
include $file;
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $contents;
}
Then:
Price: <?php echo template_contents("/path/to/file.php", $model); ?>