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+<?php
+/**
+ * An interface for template engines
+ *
+ * @author Roland Haeder <webmaster@ship-simu.org>
+ * @version 0.0
+ * @copyright Copyright(c) 2007, 2008 Roland Haeder, this is free software
+ * @license GNU GPL 3.0 or any newer version
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+interface CompileableTemplate extends FrameworkInterface {
+ /**
+ * Assign variables for templates
+ *
+ * @param $var The "variable" we want to assign
+ * @param $value The value we want to store in the variable
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function assignVariable ($var, $value);
+
+ /**
+ * Assign a configuration variables for templates
+ *
+ * @param $var The configuration "variable" we want to assign
+ * @param $value The value we want to store in the variable
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function assignConfigVariable ($var, $value);
+
+ /**
+ * Load a specified web template into the engine
+ *
+ * @param $template The web template we shall load which is
+ * located in "html" by default
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function loadWebTemplate ($template);
+
+ /**
+ * Load a specified code template into the engine for later compilation
+ * with other code/web/email templates.
+ *
+ * @param $template The code template we shall load which is
+ * located in "html" by default
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function loadCodeTemplate ($template);
+
+ /**
+ * Load a specified email template into the engine
+ *
+ * @param $template The email template we shall load which is
+ * located in "emails" by default
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function loadEmailTemplate ($template);
+
+ /**
+ * Compile all variables by inserting their respective values
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function compileVariables ();
+
+
+ /**
+ * Compile all required code/web/email-templates into the current one
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function compileTemplate ();
+
+ /**
+ * Output the compiled template to the outside world. In case of web
+ * templates this would be vaild (X)HTML code. And in case of email
+ * templates this would store a prepared email body inside the template
+ * engine.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+ function output ();
+} // END - class
+
+// [EOF]
+?>