Re: [PHP Template] recursive templates

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, waltb wrote:
> Why can't the included template know how to fill in the values?  It kind of
> 
> defeats the purpose of having included templates.  In that case you may as
> well
> just have 1 template that draws everything, since it has to know all of the
> lower
> level variables anyways.
>   What I want to be able to do, is have the 2nd and 3rd level templates
> describe how
> to fill in their respective template variables.  That way, if you change
> the 2nd and 3rd
> level templates, the master doesn't have to know anything about it.   Hence
> the ability
> of 1 php script that can handle a large group of pages, instead of only 1
> type of page.

How would you specify how the included templates fill in their values?
It's non-trivial with the exception of loading config files like I
described.

-Andrei
* Change is the only constant. *