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Aminkt
Aminkt

Reputation: 622

How do I use a template engine in Yii?

I want to write a program with Yii so that users can have their template.

My solution is that every user has a record in a DB to keep a customized template like HTML code and some syntax like Smarty or Twig.

How can I use PHP to get that records and just print it on the screen and my template engine extracts syntax and shows best results? Is that possible or not? How should I do this?

Really you know if you save php codes in database, when you print them into a file, php codes you saved in database don't run. For me the most important thing is that to save template in database whit php commands and then echo them in a file and php code run same usually.

But is is important to use smarty or twig and don't let users add php codes directly.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1174

Answers (2)

Aminkt
Aminkt

Reputation: 622

I found my answer. Just save every thing in database and when load them use eval() function. See documents in php and w3school.

Upvotes: 0

WeSee
WeSee

Reputation: 3772

For user interface templates you can use different layouts in Yii. Just put your different layout templates in the ./views/layouts folder:

./views/layouts/main-template-1.php
./views/layouts/main-template-2.php
./views/layouts/main-template-3.php

and select the layout in the controller when executing an action depending on the user which should be known in the controller.

EDIT: Without uploading layout files from users you can load the template code from the database (HTML skeleton) and then in the Controller put together layout and view code:

$contentWithoutLayout = $this->renderPartial('myview',...);
return $this->applyLayout(contentWithoutLayout, $layoutFromDb);

where applyLayout() is your method to merge layout and view content.

Upvotes: 1

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