Sure if all you are writing is a "hello world" page, but if you are
writing out an application that is more complex, wouldn't the savings
and managability be beneficial enough to justify? ... code reusability
... Don't ya think?
Why is it easier to do something like this:
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr>';
while (...) {
echo
'<td>$row['name']</td><td>$row['location']</td><td>$row['phone']</td><td>$row['fax']</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
as opposed to this:
$table->open_table();
while (...) {
$table->new_row($row);
}
Of course it doesn't account for object, and the separate template file,
but that is reusable. I don't know the syntax of smarty, but isn't it a
similar thing? You define an HTML template and deliver the object
contents upon rendering output? I have to look at Smarty more. I have
used PHPBB which uses a symilar syntax (I think). I like that sort of
template system. It seems logical to me.
-Brian
Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Charlene Wroblewski <cwemagazines@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
looked at Smarty and it doesn't seem to be as useful the way I'm using
templates.
I'm not surprised, 1000 lines of code to do "hello world"
Kevin
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