I am using (or at least tying to) PHP HEREDOC function as a templating engine. I have implemented external caller string that can directly process external functions in HEREDOC, and that works successfully.
The problem I am facing now is that the order of certain functions appear to take precedence and execute first, regardless of other functions and/or code inside the specific HEREDOC.
How to fix that?
(Please note I am a PHP beginner. I have done my homework, but couldn't find a solution. Thanks.)
FUNCTION PROCESOR:
function heredoc($input)
{
return $input;
}
$heredoc = "heredoc";
HEREDOC TEMPLATE:
function splicemaster_return_full_page()
{
global $heredoc;
$title ="This is document title";
echo <<<HEREDOC
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
{$heredoc(splice_html_title($title))}
</head>
<body>
{$heredoc(splicemaster_return_message())}
{$heredoc(splice_quick_add_article_form())}
{$heredoc(display_all_articles_in_a_html_table())}
</body>
</html>
HEREDOC;
}
The issue at hand is with "{$heredoc(display_all_articles_in_a_html_table())}" call, which outputs before everything else, resulting in a broken HTML.
Any help appreciated, I am banging my head with this for quite a while now.
UPDATE:
using stuff posted in comments i tried to do something else, but this is ugly as hell, and I would have issues editing this at later date.
function testout()
{
$title = "This is document title";
echo "<!DOCTYPE html>";
echo '<html lang="en">';
echo "<head>";
echo '<meta charset="utf-8">';
echo "<title>". $title . "</title>";
echo "</head>";
echo "<body>";
echo splicemaster_return_message();
echo splice_quick_add_article_form();
echo display_all_articles_in_a_html_table();
echo "</body>";
echo "</html>";
}
(How it looks like is not important - I have a HTML processor function.)
UPDATE 2
OK, so I found "dirty" fix, tho that doesn't explain why the engine works as it does. (I also tested on another machine, with diff. php):
function splicemaster_return_full_page()
{
global $heredoc;
$title ="This is document title";
echo <<<HEREDOC
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
{$heredoc(splice_html_title($title))}
</head>
<body>
{$heredoc(splicemaster_return_message())}
{$heredoc(splice_quick_add_article_form())}
HEREDOC;
echo <<<HEREDOC
{$heredoc(display_all_articles_in_a_html_table())}
</body>
</html>
HEREDOC;
}
