Looping & echo ini Php with out using while or for

Philip

Is there someone know how to programing php for printing output from mysql_fetch_array() with out using while or for ?

i mean like this, ussualy i will using like this

while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
echo "<table><tr>";
echo "<td>".$row[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr></table>";
}

but it seem there's other way with out using Php like using this

<table>
<List:ITEM>
<tr>
<td>{name}</td>
<td>{address}</td>
<td>{phone}</td>
</tr>
</List:ITEM>
</table>

please some explain it to me ?
thanks, Embarassed

Philip

<up this topic to top>
how to make the listing of recordset with out using looping ?
do some one know ?
thanks,
i alreadied search at google but it seem i missed it. Embarassed

n0obie4life

Phillip, the second way is a templating engine if I'm not mistaken. Obviously it still uses PHP to parse variables to the template side..

The first and second way are the same actually Rolling Eyes

.

raver

yes, those are just signs for the template sistem to replace those with what it should show instead. Imagine you are implementing a two language website.
Switching after the users selection, and using str_replace the template engine turns {ONEWORD} in THE RIGHT WORD.
And you can't do what you asked without a while or a for loop. Rolling Eyes

Philip

then, how can i make a {variable} <-- like this one ?
also make it as array {variable} ..

thanks.