"At one point or another plain HTML has to be generated. "
Care to give me an example? I never generate any html in my php code
anymore.
It's not very pretty when your code looks like echo "\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>";
Is that not a form of a templating engine that your are building?
Fredrik
Satyam wrote:
May I invite you to check http://satyam.com.ar/pht/? This is a
project I started some time ago to help me produced HTML in a more
clean and efficient way. Usually, producing good HTML involves
running a sample output through some HTML validator or looking at the
HTML and checking it out by hand, which, of course, requires good
formatting to make it understandable. In the case of too dynamic
HTML (meaning, output can vary widely) it is impossible to produce
enough samples of all the possible outputs to get them checked out.
So, my idea was to embed HTML into the language itself so that the
final output could be checked at 'compile time' and even before, using
the standard tools provided by the IDE (even just matching braces goes
a long way into checking for missmatched HTML tags).
The samples page (http://satyam.com.ar/pht/sample.htm) show several
examples.
I think that a tool such as this one might avoid any concern about
tidying up HTML since, after all, most of the checking could be done
at the PHP source level. Further development (which I have not
started yet) would lead to automatic verification against DTDs or
XSchemas.
And, of course, I would appreciate any comment on the project, EXCEPT
that you use template engines and that you do not generate HTML
directly. I've heard that and it is completely missing the point so,
please, spare me that one. At one point or another plain HTML has to
be generated.
Satyam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kelly" <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: Tidy HTML source?
On Monday 27 November 2006 17:10, Mark Kelly wrote:
Am I crazy to make an extra effort in my code to make the generated
HTML
pretty?
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on this - I'm quite relieved that
I'm not
the only one who sits and tweaks so that the HTML is nice and readable.
It just struck me that trying to make my PHP spit out page source that
looks like it was made lovingly by hand was perhaps the work of an
obsessive.
Now I know that even if it is, I'm not alone :)
Cheers!
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