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Created May 1, 2012 15:21
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Basic layout/view-style templating with PHP
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_layout.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $content_for_layout; ?>
</body>
</html>
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index.php
<?php
$page_title = 'Welcome to my website!';
ob_start();
?>
<h1>Welcome to my website!</h1>
<p>It's created using PHP's output buffering control.</p>
<?php
$content_for_layout = ob_get_clean();
require_once( '_layout.php' );
?>
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I've spent enough time working in Rails to love how it handles layouts and views. I want to do something like that in PHP, so after digging around the Internet, I figured out how to make this happen.

The example above uses PHP's output buffering control which you will have to make sure is on for this example to work.

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snookca commented May 1, 2012

I think a number of PHP frameworks use this approach. I know CakePHP does, even using the $content_for_layout naming convention.

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Oh yeah, I came across that convention (in CakePHP, specifically) while I was researching how to do this without using a framework. It's rare that I dabble in PHP these days, so this was a pretty new thing for me.

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