Hassan Support

Vogel612

4:19 PM

@HassanAlthaf so what is it?

Hassan Althaf

Oh

Vogel612

exactly ;)

Hassan Althaf

My problem is,

I want to code a Templating engine

Which I can use

But I have no idea what it should do.

Vogel612

lol...

Hassan Althaf

i created one, but idek if it is good

Vogel612

4:20 PM

first off. I have no clue what you mean by "Templating Engine"

Hassan Althaf

like smarty

frameworks

I want to code my own framework!

A massive framework!

A gigantic framework!

Vogel612

you're being quite ambitious, huh?

Hassan Althaf

ik

i want to be famous

Vogel612

well first off, you probably have to decide, how you want to organize your templates..

Hassan Althaf

ik.

Vogel612

4:22 PM

and where exactly your template-engine should be used..

Hassan Althaf

i planned to use .tpl to store template data

Vogel612

lol that's not helpful -.-

Hassan Althaf

well, everyone should be able to use it

and

Vogel612

.tpl could contain anything..

Hassan Althaf

ik

i wanna make it like

PERFECT!

Vogel612

4:23 PM

nothing's perfect..

Hassan Althaf

i know

wait

Vogel612

btw, your templating engine supposed to work for webpages?

Hassan Althaf

yes

doesnt php mean webpages? -.-

Vogel612

not necessarily...

Hassan Althaf

I'm sorry if I sound dumb.. I'm only 14..

Vogel612

4:24 PM

dw. It's just that you have a vision of a product..

you need to define that vision, before you can get started...

<-- also making that mistake a lot

Hassan Althaf

I want help in planning, what it does.

Vogel612

<-- only 5 years older FWIW

Hassan Althaf

What? Are you only 19?

Vogel612

lol what does a templating engine do? "It fills templates"

Hassan Althaf

Yes.

Vogel612

4:25 PM

yea...

well then it's actually simple..

you need to define a structure for the template

a structure for the data

and then you can decide on how you fill it.

Hassan Althaf

wat

Vogel612

example:

 template.xml:
 <head><val name="head" /></head>
 <body><val name="body" /></body>

Hassan Althaf

i dont know xml

Vogel612

similar to html, but almost solely oriented towards data representation..

it's just an example..

 data.xml
 <data>
      <head>
          some content
      </head>
      <body>
          some more content
      </body>
 </data>

result:

 <html>
       <head>
              some content
       </head>
       <body>
              some more content
       </body>
  <html>

Hassan Althaf

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

That didn't make any sense to m e.

*me

Vogel612

4:30 PM

what part exactly?

Hassan Althaf

I didn't understand what you are trying to say me.

wellllll cal you tell me how to do this:

$text = [something];

Vogel612

and then??^^

Hassan Althaf

$text = SomeMagicalFunctionRemovesThe[]Brackets

so $text = "something";

Vogel612

oh well that one is simple...

the problem is:

$text = [some[absolutely cool]thing];
$text = SomeMagicalFunction();

Hassan Althaf

no

Vogel612

4:32 PM

so $text = "someabsolutely coolthing"

Hassan Althaf

$text = "[FileNameToInclude]";

Vogel612

stop stop stop, what exactly is your goal?

Hassan Althaf

My goal is,

Well, I'll tell my problem.

Lets say I have a file.

home.tpl

It has [nav]

Which basically means, include the navigation.php file here.

well nav.php file

so, the parser does a foreach thingy

foreach($array as $key => value) {

str_replace($key, $value, $content);

wait

i actually solved it

wow

Vogel612

you're welcome..

Hassan Althaf

l0l

Vogel612

4:36 PM

this principle is called "rubber ducking"

Hassan Althaf

rubber ducking?

Vogel612

it's actually quite simple..

formulate your problem out loud

often you get to the solution that way ;)

Hassan Althaf

ohhh

I'm too pro lah, jk.

Vogel612

you can read a little on rubber ducking...

Hassan Althaf

btw

Vogel612

4:37 PM

blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving

Hassan Althaf

do you listen to songs

while codin

Vogel612

that's a post from stackexchange's CEO

mostlyyea

Hassan Althaf

what kinda songs

hardcore metal?

Vogel612

depends on the mood..

Hassan Althaf

well do ya listen to hardcore metal

Vogel612

4:38 PM

sometimes..

Hassan Althaf

u got skype?

Vogel612

but really seldom

Hassan Althaf

what does seldom mean now? -.-

Vogel612

sure I got, but I keep skype separate from all my other stuff..

seldom == not often

Hassan Althaf

what do you mean by keep skype seperate from all my other stuff

I don't understand english, i understand PHP.

-.-'

whats ur skype username?

I'll add yah

Vogel612

4:40 PM

that's what I'm talkin...

nobody here knows my skype and I prefer to keep it that way.

Hassan Althaf

:L

Vogel612

no hard feelings...

but skype is a whole different story than SE chat / Q&A

Hassan Althaf

idek who are in my skype f/l

some random people.

well, i am trying to get friends on skyp

Vogel612

lol why??^^

Hassan Althaf

who can code

to create a group

Vogel612

4:41 PM

also my skype-name is actually including my real name,..

meh.

Hassan Althaf

idc about my real name

my name is Hassan Althaf, and idgaf

www.HassanTech.org

it has all my personal data

Vogel612

I know, but you see....

I am more careful about that..

my facebook has my personal data

my skype has it

my main e-mail has it

my secondary e-mail has it

SE has it buried deep down below my open-id login

but

I got a separate thing for "Vogel612"

sure if you were digging, you could find the connections

but if you don't know how to dig, that's two different persons...

and I like it that way...

Vogel612

5:01 PM

either way, I'm heading home, It's 7PM here ;)

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