Advantages and Disadvantages of php templates

[afe]

Hello, 1)) I was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of php templates.

2))Can someone help me set up a php template for the following page, considering that this page is my index.php page. http://www.athletes4excellence.com/layout.php . Please and thank you!

Edit: Removed ugly formatting.

[tech_support]

1)) I was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of php templates.

Advantages
- Easy to maintain
- Less time wasted if you needed to change one script

Disadvantages
- Time-consuming when you're converting
- Can't work in DW properly.

2))Can someone help me set up a php template for the following page, considering that this page is my index.php page. http://www.athletes4excellence.com/layout.php . Please and thank you!

Read, learn, repeat until fully understood.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...d.php?p=125609

[Twey]

- Time-consuming when you're converting

Not a disadvantage of using a template though -- that's a disadvantage of using something else and then switching to templates.

- Can't work in DW properly.

Again, a disadvantage of DW, not templates.

Read, learn, repeat until fully understood.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...d.php?p=125609

As I posted in the thread, that's not as powerful or elegant as a real templating engine such as Smarty.

[afe]

Twey, I do not understand that link you gave me.

[Twey]

What about it?

[afe]

What's in it? Also, where do I get a nice php template?

[thetestingsite]

What do you mean by

where do I get a nice php template?

Go to the Smarty website and learn how to make up the template files (which is just plain html with some simple variables in the form of {$var}). After that, assign the variables in your script and display the template.

Hope this helps.

[afe]

I don't understand. Is the one that tech_support wrote a good one? Should I use it, also if I were to use it "the final code" that he has up, is it the "index.php" page and how would the normal pages would look like? Please and thank you!

[Twey]

As I said, that method of doing things isn't as powerful as using a real templating engine. tech_support's is an example of one inferior method of doing it. On the Smarty website you can find examples and documentation of how to do it using Smarty.

[afe]

Are there setup php templates on the web that can be used? Please and thank you. Something exactly like this, http://www.pixel2life.com/ except I want the menu with sub menu tabs and taking out the search engine. Again thank you so much I appreciate the help!