File: use_vars_example.php

<?php
/*
 * $Id: use_vars_example.php,v 1.3 2000/07/31 14:38:35 jesus Exp $
 */

// call this script: use_vars_example.php?title=Cool+Script

// based on the example using the FastTemplate class
// demonstrates the use of the use_vars() method to use
// a set of variable/value pairs when caching

require "./class.FastTemplate.php3";
require "./class.FastTemplateAdaptor.php";
require "./class.CachedTemplate.php";


$ftpl = new CachedTemplate();
$ftpl->init("./templates");


$critical_vars = array (
		"template_number" => 1,
		"database_name" => "mydb",
		"document_title" => $title
	);

echo "<hr>\n<pre>\ncritical_vars:\n";
var_dump($critical_vars);
echo "\n</pre>\n";
echo "if 'title' is NULL, you forgot to pass that var in the URL, something
like: http://yousite.com/path/to/use_vars_example.php?title=Cool+script<hr>";


// use the $critical_vars when caching, store them into 
// a var data file
$ftpl->use_vars($critical_vars,"store");

// for benchmarking
$start = $ftpl->utime();

// the templates are distributed w/FastTemplate
// we need this definition first, so the caching logic can
// detect if the templates have changed.
$ftpl->define(
    array(
        main    => "main.tpl",
        table   => "table.tpl",
        row     => "row.tpl"
    )
);


// Check if we can send the cached file
if ($ftpl->valid_cache_file()) {
    echo "<B>FROM CACHE</B>\n<BR>";
    $ftpl->read_from_cache();
    $end = $ftpl->utime();
    $runtime = ($end - $start) * 1000;
    echo "Completed in $runtime miliseconds<BR>\n";
    exit;
}

// Otherwise process the page, 
// using the gtitle var passed as a GET query string
$ftpl->assign( array( TITLE => $gtitle) );

for ($n=1; $n <= 3; $n++)
{
    $Number = $n;
    $BigNum = $n*10;

    $ftpl->assign(
        array(
            NUMBER      =>  $Number,
            BIG_NUMBER  =>  $BigNum
        )
    );

    $ftpl->parse(ROWS,".row");
}

$ftpl->parse(MAIN, array("table","main"));

// get parsed document
$data = $ftpl->getParsedDoc();
echo $data;

// for benchmarking
$end = $ftpl->utime();
$runtime = ($end - $start) * 1000;
echo "Completed in $runtime miliseconds<BR>\n";

// we write the file at the end so this
// operation will not be counted in the benchmark
$ftpl->write_to_cache($data);

?>