Templating and php

I ported the mootools javascript templating to php, so that you can use it with object and associative array.


function substitute($string, $object) {

$o = is_object($object) ? get_object_vars($object) : $object;

if(preg_match_all('/\\\\?\{([^{}]+)\}/', $string, $matches)) {

$search = array();
$replace = array();

foreach($matches[0] as $k => $m) {

if(substr($m, 0, 1) == '\\')
continue;

$search[] = $m;
$replace[] = isset($o[$matches[1][$k]]) && is_scalar($o[$matches[1][$k]]) ? $o[$matches[1][$k]] : '';
}

if($search)
$string = str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}

return $string;
}


Here are some sample usages

$template = '{greating}, my name is {name}';

//using an object
$object = new stdClass();
$object->greating = 'Hello';
$object->name = 'Bela';

echo substitute($template, $object); //Hello, my name is Bela

//using an associative array
echo substitute($template, array('greating' => 'Hello',
'name' => 'Bela'
)); //Hello, my name is Bela



If you are looking for a very advanced usage of template you'll probabily look for library like patTemplate