Step 5: Layout
We use the template engine to seperate layout from logic, php apps usually have logic & content mixed, we all know this is a bad practice but it happens a lot.
Also ... designers ... designers want to do one thing, design, programmers want to do one thing, program (although we have to do extensive analysis before coding etc ;)).
So this gives us the oppertunity to do this and everybody is happy, off course it opens up other possibilities like skinning etc, feel free to be creative.
| tpl/main.tpl |
| <![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<head>
<title>Zen-ng framework example</title>
</head>
<body>
{varfile=content}
</body>
</html>]]> |
Later we will replace this file by something nicer, but this already demonstrates
more of the custom tags that are allowed.
| tpl/main.tpl |
| <![CDATA[<ul>
{foreach=courses}<li>{courses}</li>{/fe}
</ul>]]> |