On 31 May 2001, at 0:49, Simon Budig wrote: > Martijn Weisbeek (weisbeek@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > So I also read some people mentioned PHP's spaghetti-like nature. > > However, I also like to state that using PHP will enable a lot more > > programmers to be able to contribute. > > Sorry - but at this point I have to interrupt you. We probably don't > need "programmers". Our main concern has to be content. The average > programmer (including me) would give you lots of template-systems > based on PHP/Perl/Zope/Whatever and is totally happy that there are > 1000 ways to do this. But the content that comes from these people is > mostly crap - have a look at Tom's demo site ;-) > > So we have to be careful not to scare away the people that actually > can deliver the content of the site. IMHO it is way better to have a > <!--#include "incs/footer.html" --> than a PHP-Page which -- for a > more advanced system -- looks more like a program than a > content-container. What surprises me in this discussion is how everybody jumps in and suggests tools and for methods for automatic content creation and management, but I have yet to see the first word on what the content for www.gimp.org. Maybe I missed that discussion? If so, could you point me to the appropriate thread in the mailing list archive? If I look at the current site, I can hardly find anything that warrants dynamic creation of HTML. There is a way to leaf through the site (the arrows left and right in the thermometer), but that is about it. Maybe a discussion on what content is needed for the site should come first, and only then the definition of how we are going to implement it. Comments? -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
