PHP templating challenge (optimizing front-end templates)
- by Matt
Hey all,
I'm trying to do some templating optimizations and I'm wondering if it is possible to do something like this:
function table_with_lowercase($data) {
$out = '<table>';
for ($i=0; $i < 3; $i++) {
$out .= '<tr><td>';
$out .= strtolower($data);
$out .= '</td></tr>';
}
$out .= "</table>";
return $out;
}
NOTE: You do not know what $data is when you run this function.
Results in:
<table>
<tr><td><?php echo strtolower($data) ?></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php echo strtolower($data) ?></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php echo strtolower($data) ?></td></tr>
</table>
General Case: Anything that can be evaluated (compiled) will be. Any time there is an unknown variable, the variable and the functions enclosing it, will be output in a string format.
Here's one more example:
function capitalize($str) {
return ucwords(strtolower($str));
}
If $str is "HI ALL" then the output is:
Hi All
If $str is unknown then the output is:
<?php echo ucwords(strtolower($str)); ?>
In this case it would be easier to just call the function (ie. <?php echo capitalize($str) ?> ), but the example before would allow you to precompile your PHP to make it more efficient
