thanks
I haven't thought about sharing the code, but it would be easy because our
code is as abstract as possible. In fact there a few files which contain
most of the "HTML replacements" that can be used on basically any site
without modification.
I'm too busy at the moment, I think I'll package my implementation for
anyone who is interested.
BTW in general I always name functions in this sort of style:
category_specific_morespecific() meaning that ideally all my HTML
replacement functions would be named something like html_tr() and
html_head(). The reason I didn't do that was to make these functions we use
all the time shorter to type and the code easier to read.
Also a lot of my functions are flexible such as blockquote( $text = '' )
where if you specify some text it is enclosed in blockquote tags or if you
don't it just opens the tag. ex, the following are the same:
blockquote('print this text');
blockquote(); echo 'print this text'; x('blockquote');
Let me show you an example from our site, go to
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest.html and run a test so you get to the
results screen. (this example will only work for a few more days because we
are debuting an all new speed test, I'm really excited about it)
Anyway look at the explanations below the results box, those are printed by:
$content = (function that grabs the text from our database);
while(list($title, $text) = each($content)) {
main_title1($title, BLUE2);
blockquote($text);
}
that's it.
............. Jade Ohlhauser
[website architect]........... http://bandwidthplace.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kulkarni, Vikram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Jade Ohlhauser'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] mixing HTML and PHP code
> Hello Jade:
>
> I like your idea of using functions instead of HTML. It must simplify the
> work tremendously. Is there any place you have published these functions?
> I would love to take a look at them. I am a newbie PHP programmer and am
> trying to learn from masters :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vikram Kulkarni
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jade Ohlhauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:41 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: Re: [PHP] mixing HTML and PHP code
>
>
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>
> > You _actually_ print() or echo() everything you want to send to the
> > browser?
>
> Absolutely. We've replaced every HTML tag we use often with PHP functions.
> We separate content, style, layout, and logic so using 100% PHP is the
best
> for us.
>
> > if you have ever worked in a fast paced production environment, where
html
> > is changed sometimes 5 times a day, digging through hundreds of lines
of:
> >
> > echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"hello\" size=\"20\" value=\"$value\">"
> >
> > starts to make you insane.
> >
> > speaking as an html author, and a lover of php, _please_:
> >
> > <input type="text" name="hello" size="20" value="<?=$value?>">
> >
> > it makes the code useable.
>
> IMHO even better is:
> input_text('hello', 20, $value);
>
> that's how that would appear on our site. We order the parameters
logically
> and include a catch all final parameter that will add text to the HTML
tag.
>
> > echo "<html>";
> > echo "<head>";
> > echo "<title>$title</title>";
> > echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'
> > href='resources/css/$css.css'>";
> > echo "<script src='/resources/js/base_lib.js'
> > language='javascript'></script>";
> > echo "</head>";
> > echo "<body bgcolor='#EEEEEE' text='#000000' link='#003366'
> alink='#CCCCCC'
> > vlink='#003366' topmargin='0' leftmargin='0' marginwidth='0'
> > marginheight='0'>";
> > echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'
> > bgcolor="#000000">";
> > echo "<tr>";
> > echo "<td valign='top'><img
> src='resources/images/binarycloud/tmpl/fire.jpg'
> > alt='' width='466' height='161' border='0'></td>";
> > echo "</tr>";
> > echo "</table>";
> >
> > it introduces a whole world of unnecessary complexity.
> >
> > to prove my point:
> >
> > get one of your friends that knows html but not PHP to look at the
above,
> > then this:
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title><?=$title?></title>
> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="resources/css/<?=$css?>.css">
> > <script src="/resources/js/base_lib.js" language="javascript"></script>
> > </head>
> > <body bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#003366" alink="#CCCCCC"
> > vlink="#003366" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
> > marginheight="0">
> > <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
> > bgcolor="#000000">
> > <tr>
> > <td valign="top"><img src="resources/images/binarycloud/tmpl/fire.jpg"
> > alt="" width="466" height="161" border="0"></td>
> > </tr>
> > </table>
>
> On our site that would more like:
>
> (comments)
>
> (include files)
>
> (page specific variables)
>
> html();
>
> head($title);
> head_css('stylesheet.css');
> head_script('script.js);
> x('head');
>
> body($style)
> table(0, 0, 0, '100%', '', BLACK);
> tr('top'); td(); image('fire.jpg'); x('td'); x('tr');
> x('table');
>
> x('body');
> x('html');
>
> Well it would be a bit different because we have other logic and comments
> throughout, but you get the "jist" of it.
>
> BTW "image()" calls "img()" but adds the appropriate image directory to
the
> path. img() is a function that creates the img HTML tag along with
> automatically finding out and adding the width and height parameters. I
> can't imagine going back to manually editing those every time I change the
> image dimensions.
>
> We have many people who contribute to this site. Some of them are content
> editors with no technical expertise. Simply saying "saty away from code in
> (these) tags" is not enough. 1.they don't have the HTML know how 2. I'm
not
> risking even that much access. They don't go anywhere near an editor or FT
P
> program, they do everything through interfaces we (the tech team) builds.
>
> ............. Jade Ohlhauser
> [website architect]........... http://bandwidthplace.com
>
>
>
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