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$elem) { $s = $i%2; echo << EOB; } ?>

{$elem['id']}

{$elem['sdesc']}

{$elem['cat']}

\${$elem['fprice']}

Category {$cat} EOB; ?>
Details

The main thing to note here is that the majority of this file is very basic HTML. No styles, or javascript and no complicated PHP. It contains only simple presentation-level PHP logic. A modulus operation toggles the colours for the rows of items, and a loop around a heredoc (<<<) block performs variable substitutions. head() and foot() function calls add the common template headers and footers. If you wanted to make it even cleaner you could use an auto_prepend_file configuration setting which tells PHP to always include a certain file at the top of your script. Then you could take out the include calls and the initial head() function call. I tend to prefer less magic and to control my template dependencies right in my templates with a very clean and simple include structure. Try to avoid using include_once and require_once if possible. You are much better off using a straight include or require call, because the *_once() calls are very slow under an opcode cache. Sometimes there is no way around using these calls, but recognize that each one costs you an extra open() syscall and hash look up.