Parsing code snippets from database

Problem:
I'm using a template-based system to display pages. What I want to do is make the system extensible by adding objects to a database and then retrieve the objects and output them using a page template.

The workflow will look something like this:
Call function page
function page reads template page
function page calls db snippet
function page parses template page and inserts code snippet
output page parses snippet.

So what I want to do is have the user access http://www.domain.com/display.php?id=nnnn
display.php reads displaytemplate.html
display.php finds <<codesnippetid>> and retrieves the corresponding snippet.
replaces <<codesnippetid>> with the code
writes this to the browser in a way that allows the snippet to be parsed then.

Does anyone have any idea how I could accomplish this easily ?
I have a basic framework in place, but my resulting page displays the code instead of the parsed code.

Yeah, id like info about this too - for the same reason Right now I am using strreplace() to replace the code, but that defeats the purpose doesn't it? or maybe im wrong?

Cheers,
Joe of 4Life

hmm, try creating a class file that handles the templates, create a function to retrive the file name, one to set the parameters and one to create the page.

Kiwi,

Why not give a template system a try? No need to re-invent the wheel... I use patTemplate for my development, and find it to be an incredible system!

There's also Smary, but I haven't used it yet.

Check them both out and decide for yourself which is the better system for you.

Thanks, Frankie...funny enough I'd just been looking at smarty and was thinking it may be the best approach, but I'll have a look at patTemplate too.