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Date: Mon,  2 Jun 2003 17:12:50 +0100
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>
>
>My thought is to try to raise the abstraction higher.
>Here's how I'd like to code a server generated page.
>
>int some_data[5][5]; /*eg*/
>create_my data(some_data);
>...
>{
> new_web_page(template);
> add(some_data, how_to_add_intgers);
> add(sometext, how_to_add_text);
> ...
> done(); /* composes the page and writes it out*/
>}
>
>
that's kind of how I do it
<?
$this->add_head_item('<link href="/cascading_menu.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">');
$this->add_head_item('<link href="/cascading_menu_colours.css"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">');
$this->add_h1('useful links');
$this->add_anchor('plan 9 homepage',
array('href'=>'http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9', 'target'=>'_blank');

echo $this->get();
?>

and out  pops a valid, well formatted html document

I've added a few things to it over that last 6 months such that this site

http://www.bigchoicemobilephones.com

took about a week to build from scratch

the body content sits in a directory tree outside of the webspace & the
php pulls it all together