templating

I was reading somewhere that PHP is a templating language. What is exactly a templating language? What makes PHP one? What are the other templating languages? The premise behind a template language is that the language is "embedded" within some other master document. Specifically, on your average document, the total size of the document is mostly document source than template language. Consider two contrived examples: print "This is a simple document. It has three lines." print "On the second line is my name: " + firstName print "This is the third line." vs This is a simple document. It has

I am trying to set up a site using laravel, but I'm really having trouble with basic things that the documentation just doesn't cover. In this case, I see that it says I can include one view inside another by using @include('view.name') . What is view.name? Where is it saved? I tried creating a file app/views/view.name.blade.php , but it wasn't read. How does the file name map to the blade name? winkbrace EDIT: Below was the preferred solution in 2014. Nowadays you should use @include , as mentioned in the other answer . In Laravel views the dot is used as folder separator. So for example I

I need to send email notifications to users and I need to allow the admin to provide a template for the message body (and possibly headers, too). I'd like something like string.Format that allows me to give named replacement strings, so the template can look like this: Dear {User}, Your job finished at {FinishTime} and your file is available for download at {FileURL}. Regards, -- {Signature} What's the simplest way for me to do that? Use a templating engine. StringTemplate is one of those, and there are many. Here is the version for those of you who can use a new version of C#: // add $ at