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 $variable- if$placeholderis 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.