Stamps

» Stamp, alternative PHP Templates

Besides the paper model metaphor you can build output from templates using a slightly more rudimentary approach; to treat the template like a collection of stamps. The 'stamp' mode consists mostly of two functions: copy() - to copy a certain section in your template and replace() - to replace a portion of your template.

Consider the following template:

 

    <ul class="tabs">
        <!-- tab -->
            <li>
                <a class="#active#" href="#href#">#tab#</a>
            </li>
        <!-- /tab -->
    </ul>

This is a template for a menu for a website using tabs. Now let's assume we have an array containing the menu items together with the content pages that have to be associated with the hyperlinks:

 
    $current = "news";
    $tabs = array("home.html"=>"homepage","news.html"=>"news","about.html"=>"about");

The template can be applied to the array using the following code:

 
    $s = new Stamp($template);
    $menu = "";
    foreach($tabs as $lnk=>$t)
        $menu .= $s->copy("tab")->put("href",$lnk)->put("tab",$t)->put("active",($current==$t)?"active":"inactive");
    
    echo $s->replace("tab",$menu);

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