How to create my own template engine?

[Salazar]

Hey,

I love the template system of vbulletin! The thing is, I'd like to create a template based website similar to vb but I don't want to use some 3rd party template engine like Smarty. In other words: I want to code one my own.

Does anyone have a tutorial or hints? I'd really like to do this!

[harmor19]

<a href="http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-a-Template-Parser-Class-with-PHP-Part-I/" target="_blank">http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Build...th-PHP-Part-I/</a>

[Salazar]

Thanks but this one is not database driven. I'd prefer to save the templates in a DB (just like vbulletin).

[harmor19]

There's two options, database and flat-file.

Edit:
Nevermind, I got the wrong tutorial.