Modify PHP. Customize how PHP calls a function

Question

Can php be modified to create a custom way to call a php function without opening and closing php tags? For example, given an example function like this that is incl

Answer 1

Most of the time a fancy template engine is entirely unnecessary. You can easily accomplish this by running a simple str_replace loop of your tokens and their values over the otherwise-ready HTML (that you've stored into a variable) before you echo it all out. Here's what I do:

$html = 'My-ready-HTML with {{foo}} and {{bar}} thingys.';

// Or: $html = file_get_contents('my_template.html');

$footsy = 'whatever';
$barsie = 'some more';

$tags = [
    'foo' => $footsy,
    'bar' => $barsie
    ];

function do_tags($tags, $html) {    
    foreach ($tags as $key=>$val) {
        $html = str_replace('{{'.$key.'}}', $val, $html);
    }
    return $html;
}

$output = do_tags($tags, $html);

echo $output;