This is actually the smarty theme system to a tee. See:
http://smarty.php.net/crashcourse.php and scroll down to "index.tpl".
I actually find smarty much more intuitive. Common excuses:
But you can't have control structures:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.if.php
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.section.php
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.foreach.php
But you can't get advanced variables from Drupal:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php
But you can't run PHP code/But it's not powerful enough:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.php.php
But you can't include files:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.include.php
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.include.php.php
But it's hard to do formatting:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifiers.php
But the theme engine isn't kept up to date:
http://drupal.org/project/smarty
Robin
On 6/23/06, Farsheed <tfarsheed@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
In order to minimize the php code seen by a themer, I
was wondering what people thought of making simple
aliases for basic printouts of phptemplate variables.
The phptemplate engine would go in and find these
aliases and convert them to their actual values.
BEFORE:
<?php print $content ?>
<?php print $sidebar_left ?>
AFTER:
{$content}
{$sidebar_left}
Just looking to reduce the amount of potentially
intimidating code for new themers. Of course regular
PHP should still work.
Farsheed
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