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HTML_Template_Flexy

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Introduction --  What HTML_Template_Flexy can do
Configuration Options --  Setting the defaults for HTML_Template_Flexy
new HTML_Template_Flexy -- constructor
$flexy->compile() -- Converts a template from markup to PHP if required
$flexy->outputObject() -- Merges a controller object with the template and outputs the result
$flexy->bufferedOutputObject() -- Merges a controller object with the template and returns the result
$flexy->getElements() -- Fetch Dynamic HTML Elements from template
new HTML_Template_Flexy_Element -- Class constructor
$element->setValue() -- Utility function to set or store values from common tag types.
$element->setOptions() -- Utility function equivilant to HTML_Select - loadArray **
$element->removeAttributes() -- Removes an attributes
$element->setAttributes() -- Sets the HTML attributes
$element->toHtml -- Output HTML and children
$element->toHtmlnoClose() -- Output Open Tag and any children and not Child tag (designed for use with <form + hidden elements>
$factory->freeze() -- freeze - freeze's an element. - just copies the value to the override.
$factory->fromArray() -- fromArray - builds a set of elements from a key=>value array (eg. DO->toArray()) the second parameter is an optional HTML_Element array to merge it into.
$factory->fromArrayPrefixed() -- fromArrayPrefixed - takes a multi dimensional array, and builds the 'xxx[sss][xx]' => value
$factory->setErrors() -- setErrors - sets the suffix of an element to a value..
$factory->setRequired() -- setRequired - sets the prefix of an element to a value..
{variable} -- creates PHP code to echo a variable
{method(arguments,#quoted arguments#)} -- creates a PHP method call, and echos the results
{foreach:variable,key,value} -- creates a PHP foreach loop
{if:variable} -- creates a PHP if statement
{end:} -- closes an if or foreach block
{else:} -- adds an PHP else in an if block
<FORM NAME="name" -- configures automatic form elements
<INPUT NAME="name"> -- creates PHP variable for input values
<TEXTAREA NAME="name"> -- creates PHP variable for textarea value
<SELECT NAME="name"> -- creates PHP variable and code for select lists
flexy:if="variable or method()" -- creates a PHP if conditional tag
flexy:foreach="variable,key,value" -- creates a PHP foreach loop using a html attribute
flexy:start="here" -- Start the output, using this tag and it's children.
flexy:startchildren="here" -- Start the output using it's children.
flexy:ignore="yes" -- Prevent Automatic form value replacement
flexy:nameuses="variable" -- Use a variable in the name for a flexy form element
<FLEXY:TOJAVASCRIPT JSVAR="PHPVAR"> ... -- Provides a simple way to pass data from PHP to Javascript

An extremely flexible Template core, with multiple engines.

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