Template system, based on cs_genericPage from cs-content (v1.x).
This is a templating engine, built primarily to allow easy separation between PHP and HTML. Separating PHP from HTML helps keep the code clean and tends to avoid spaghetti code from happening.
Template: a file containing template vars.
Template Var: a string of text, following standard variable naming conventions, wrapped in curly braces: {templateVar}
This is a simple example. Keep in mind that there's a lot of different ways to accomplish this same end result.
$recordSet = array(
0 => array(
'primary_id' => 1,
'record_name' => 'The First Record',
'another_field' => 'field value',
'is_active' => 0,
),
1 => array(
'primary_id' => 3,
'record_name' => 'A third record',
'another_field' => 'something else',
'is_active' => 1,
),
);
$tmpl = new Template(__DIR__ .'/path/to/file.tmpl');
$output = $tmpl->renderRows($recordSet);The associated template file would look something like this:
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{primary_id}|{record_name}|{another_field}|{is_active}|{invalid_field}
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The output would look like this:
===============
1|The First Record|field value|0|
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===============
3|A third record|something else|1|
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