HTML_Template_IT::setVariable()

HTML_Template_IT::setVariable() -- set a variable

Synopsis

      require_once 'HTML/Template/IT.php';

void HTML_Template_IT::setVariable ( mixed $placeholder , mixed $variable = "" )

Description

Set the value of a variable in the current template block. If $placeholder is an array, the key of an element is treated as a placeholder name while the value is treated as its substitution.

Parameter

mixed $placeholder - name of the placeholder to substitute or a array with the placeholder as key and the data to assign as value.
mixed $variable - if $placeholder is not a array, the value to assign to the placeholder.

Example

Template - cvsnames.tpl.htm

    
<html>
 <table>
<!-- BEGIN row -->
  <tr>
   <td>
    {CVS_USERNAME}
   </td>
   <td>
    {REALNAME}
   </td>
   <td>
    <ul>
    <!-- BEGIN project_row -->
     <li>{PROJECT}</li>
    <!-- END project_row -->
    </ul>
   </td>
  </tr>
<!-- END row -->
 </table>
</html>

Script

    
<?php
  require_once "HTML/Template/IT.php";

  $data = array
  (
    "0" => array("cvs_username" => "pajoye", 
                 "realname" => "Pierre-Alain Joye",
                 "projects" => array("PEAR", 
                                     "PEAR_Frontend_Web", 
                                     "PEAR_RemoteInstaller", 
                                      "HTML_Template_IT")),
    "1" => array("cvs_username" => "dsp",
                 "realname" => "David Soria Parra",
                 "projects" => array("HTML_Template_IT"))
  );

  $tpl = new HTML_Template_IT("./templates");

  $tpl->loadTemplatefile("cvsnames.tpl.htm", true, true);

  foreach($data as $name) {
     // Assign data to the inner block
     
     $tpl->setCurrentBlock("project_row");
     foreach ($name['projects'] as $projectname) {
         $tpl->setVariable("PROJECT", $projectname);
         $tpl->parseCurrentBlock();
     }
     
     // use the possbility to set the placeholders using an assoc array
     $tpl->setVariable(
                      array("CVS_USERNAME" => $name["cvs_username"],
                            "REALNAME" => $name["realname"])
                      );

     $tpl->parse("row");
  }

  // show() parses the __global__ block and
  // print the output
  $tpl->show();

?>

Note

This function can not be called statically.

See

HTML_Template_IT::parse()


HTML_Template_IT::setTemplate()	HTML_Template_IT::show()

HTML_Template_IT

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HTML_Template_IT::setTemplate()	HTML_Template_IT::show()

HTML_Template_IT

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