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class template {
var $output = NULL;
function parseFile( $file ) {
if ( file_exists( $file ) ) {
$file = $file;
} else {
$file = "error.tpl";
}

return file_get_contents($file)
}

function parseTemplate( $templ, $vars ) {
$file = $this->parseFile($templ)

foreach ($vars as $variable => $data) {
$variable = '{' . $variable . '}';
$file = str_replace($variable, $data, $file)
}

$this->output = $file;
}

function display() {
print $this->output;
}
}

?>

include("templatesys.php")

//Any other code goes here

$content = 'This is content';
$news = 'Some news';

$data = array('CONTENT' => $content,
'NEWS' => $news)

$tpl = new template;
$tpl->parseTemplate('templates/page.tpl', $data)
$tpl->display()

?>

(CONTENT}

---

{NEWS}



Enjoy. smile

the function:
function parse($file, $data)
{
extract($data)
require ($file)
}

the main file (the controler):

$data['title'] = 'this is my title!';
while($d = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$dat[] = $d;
}
$data['news'] = $dat;
parse('my_view.php', $data)

the view:





The title:
The news body:

ob_start()
include($myfile)
$content = ob_get_content()
ob_clean()