VlibTemplate

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vlibTemplate is a template engine written in PHP. Programmers and web developers may use it for web development. vlibTemplate is a PHP class that is intended to make splitting PHP from HTML a simple and natural task, using markup tags. This class allows users to set values for variables, loops, if statements, etc. which are declared in the template.

vlibTemplate is a part of vLIB. It has an interface to vlibDate and vlibMimeMail.

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Code example

Since vlibTemplate separates PHP from HTML, there are two files:

Note that this file contains plain HTML and one markup tag. TMPL_VAR is used to display template variables, which are assigned in the PHP script:

Using the vlibTemplateCache can speed up the parsing process.

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Features

• WYSIWYG: you can design and edit your templates with Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG HTML editor you can think of.
• Structure and Modularity: vlibTemplate will help you a great deal about modularity and structure of your code. It will help you to create cleaner code, too.
• Template includes: you can include a template file from within another template file so, for example, you can have a site footer that you point to from each template, if you needed to change the footer, it can be done simply by editing 1 file.
• Template loops: you can set up loops in your template for maybe showing the result of a database query. You can use setdbloop and let handle vlibTemplate the $result (e.g. returned by mysql_query, pg_query or ora_do). vlibTemplate can handle a lot of RDBMS like: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Informix and others.
• Template conditions: you can actually use boolean conditions in your template (<tmpl_if name="is_true"></tmpl_if>), this can be handy for displaying different color in a table, or showing a list of results in a search page.
• Template caching: you can cache your templates to a file which means that vlibTemplate reads the template from the cache (which is already compiled) and thus can save much time while writing a page.
• Template debugging: if you want to see exactly what's being used by vlibTemplate you can see by using vlibTemplateDebug. This class will output an HTML-formatted page with all data needed to see where you're going wrong. It will even tell you if there are errors in the way you've written the template.

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External links

• Download
• vLIB (English)
• vLIB (German)
• Documentation and reference (English)
• Introduction and tutorial (German)
• vLIB forums
• Benchmarks

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