registering arrays

[AndrewSimm]

I am working on a basic cart to integrate with paypal. I have 5 files and for the most part I can get what I want to work but not how I won't it to work. My biggest issue right now is I have to edit the layout in my functions file and I would like to have a separate template for each item block.

shopping.php - basic page that renders the template but noteworthy code is

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR.'/shopping/cis_products.php');
require_once(DIR.'/shopping/cis_cart_functions.php');
require_once(DIR.'/shopping/cis_block.php');

at the bottom

$templater = vB_Template::create('cis_cart_SHELL');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
$templater->register('product', $product);
print_output($templater->render()); 


cis_products.php -has 4 different arrays with 4 different ids


cis_cart_functions.php

PHP Code:

function get_list_view_html($product_id, $product) {
    $output = "";

    $output = $output . "<div class='cisproductblock'><div class='cisproductimage'>";
    $output = $output . '<a href="/shopping/product.php?id=' . $product_id . '" alt="">';
    $output = $output . '<img src="' . $product["img"] . '"alt="' . $product["name"] . '">';
    $output = $output . "</div>
              <div class='cisproductname'>". $product["name"] . "</div>
            <div class='cisproductinfo'>";
    $output = $output . "<div class='cisproductprice'>" . $product["price"] . "</div></a>";
    $output = $output . " </div></div>";

    return $output;

} 


cis_block.php

PHP Code:

foreach($products as $product_id => $product){ 

echo get_list_view_html($product_id, $product);


} 


I want to get rid of the whole output thing and edit create a vbulletin template and use the array like {vb:raw product.name) {vb:raw product.img} etc

my PHP skills aren't very good, so any help would be great!