This tutorial shows you how to create a template-based Web site using FastTemplate class by <a href=http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/>CDI</a>. By using FastTemplate you can change the look of your entire web site in seconds, use abstract programming without HTML, and your Webpage designer does not need to take care of all that "fuzzy" code.
This article/column describes how to create a simple single table, single template content management system. It shows you how to make a powerful yet simple data driven website using <a href="http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10112.html">DataMan</a>. You can put a site up in less than 30mins.
If you want to seperate PHP-code from HTML-code, you need some kind of template system. TinyButStrong (TBS) provides such a system. This is a short crash course for TinyButStrong. The german tutorial is more detailed, but both refer to the same examples. It will teach you how to use TBS fields and TBS blocks. Some simple and more complicated examples are provided. You will learn how to use TBS with MySQL, too. TBS documentation is available in english, german and french.
Platform(s): Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris
BM's DeveloperWorks website has a nice tutorial on Midgard. Written by David Seager, a software engineer at IBM, the article describes setting up a basic Midgard site. The article also does a good job of setting up a general context for what Midgard is and how it works.
Ever needed to get back to a previous version of a C include file, or a PHP script, because the customer changed his mind and decided that he liked "that previous thing" better? Find out how to reduce stress levels - and hair loss - by handing your code over to CVS, the powerful open-source version control system.
Here you will learn some of the special PHP5 class functions while creating a massive templating class (in power, not size). This templating class will be capable of an unlimited (only limited by system) number of loops, embedded loops, and references. It is the perfect templating class.
Templates can bring order and structure to a web site. This article describes how templates can be used to control the page layout for a site that is currently composed of many pages of static HTML, using a popular template class and a new feature of PHP4.
This tutorial will show you the basics of using PHP with some simple Javascripting methods to create a drop down menuing system for your site.
This will teach you the simple tricks of using Javascripting with your PHP code in order to display simple yet effective drop down menus for your users.