ViewFish

Using templates

Once instantiated, you can use the ViewFish object multiple times. If you choose to do so, rather than hard-coding absolute paths to your templates, you may want to point to a location where your templates are stored. If that's the case, you'd call the set_template_path method.

Instantiate the object

$t = new ViewFish\viewfish();

Set your template directory:

$template = $t->set_template_path('/path/to/templates/');

If you use this, your file extension (either tmpl or tpl) can be safely omitted.

Next, you load your template of choice:

$template = $t->load_template('template-name.tmpl');

Finally, you pass an associative array to the rendering function:

$html = $t->render($template,$data);

Note that you can still pass an absolute path, it will work. So these are all valid:

$template = $t->load_template('template-name');

$template = $t->load_template('template-name.tmpl');

$template = $t->load_template('template-name.tpl');

$template = $t->load_template('/path/to/template-name.tmpl');

$template = $t->load_template('/path/to/template-name.some.other.extension');

That's it. $html will now contain your ready-to-go output.

You can see the output at code.adamscheinberg.com