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Hi,
I am using php for web development.
I had heard lot about the using php template.
I heard about the smarty template , making custom template for joomla/ mambo.
Are they userful.
I had installed the mambo dreamweaver extension but was not able to know how to use that.
Can any body provide help, why to use template and how to make custom template.
Thankyou
If you have a website with many pages, using a template will keep you from having to alter every page each time there is a change to the main design.
How to do it covers many realms. There is no 1 set way of making a template. In fact there are many ways. Here is a Google search that should be helpful to you.
If you are competent with php then there are two ways I would suggest for making a template.
1) The first is to design and make your web template in html as though it were a normal webpage. Save it as template.php for example and then add sections to the html code to add certain elements. For example:
This would set your title element to "PC Games Website - " followed by whatever you set $pc_title to. To use this you would code whatever you want to outside of the html like:PHP Code:<title>PC Games Website -
<?
echo $pc_title;
?>
</title>
Because the include_once function has the effect of simply adding everything which is in another file to the current one, every variable you set will be available in your template, you can then just print them out wherever you want to as given in the title example.PHP Code:$pc_title="Homepage";
$main_content="This is a page all about pc games";
//Then call your template:
include_once('template.php');
2) Secondly would be to build your html template as before, saving it as template.php. When you are happy it all works, save one half as header.php and the other as footer.php. The division should come at either side of the main content area. So your main navigation will most likely be in header.php, any remaiing bits will be in footer. Such as:
Then your main page which includes header and footer:PHP Code://header.php
<html>
<head>
<title>PC Games Website -
<?
echo $pc_title;
?>
</title>
</head>
<body>
Then finally your footerPHP Code://index.php
$pc_title="Homepage";
include_once('header.php');
echo "This is a page all about pc games";
include_once('footer.php');
Every page you make then works like the index page with different content.PHP Code:</body>
</html>
Hope this helps.
Daniel
P.s. I'm sure everyone on this site will come along and criticise this approach but it works for me!
Don't be so negative. That is the way I have been doing it for ages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibinaear
Please remember that when editing a post, to put a reason why you edited. Especially when you edit it after posting over 30 minutes prior.
I normally put an Edit: if I have edited unless it's only minor changes such as spellings and the like. If I have not put a reason it is because I have not made significant changes.Quote:
Originally Posted by PeejAvery
for template-ing ... i usually do the OOP. hope it will worth a bit for u ;)
ex.
rgrds,Code:class Page{
var $banner;
var $menu;
var $content;
var $footer;
function setBanner(){
}
function setFooter(){
}.....
and so on
}
szpilman