On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 12:35 -0400, Eric Butera wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 16:47 +0300, Sancar Saran wrote: > >> > >> Do not use, template system, use inline php code for templates. > > > > Oh dear... you must subscribe to FUD 101. > > ??? > > I use straight php files for my templates. My templates are very > strict in what they allow, but that is just a coding guideline, not an > enforced thing. Basically they're read only & don't contain any real > logic. I allow function calls, but only for things that are reads. > Writes need to happen inside the controller. I was responding to Sancar... there's a belief by some that template engines are bad. Probably because they've used a template engine that takes a run-time hit since it requires loading the template processor and any possible cached data. This is FUD, my own template engine compiles directly to the PHP file that will be requested by the browser (1). It is very convenient to pre-process static information at compile time rather than on every request (specific properties, content chunks, content relocation, etc). Additionally, it can compile to static HTML, CSS (2), JavaScript (3), or anything really-- in which case the PHP intepreter isn't even needed after compile. You can't do that with a "PHP as templating engine solution" since it always requires the PHP engine to run. So it's FUD. Cheers, Rob. (1) That's optional actually... you can use it like a traditional template engine too... but why would you. (2) For instance I break my CSS files into chunks when actually creating the stylesheets. The files represent specific groupings of related CSS and allow for embedded comments that are stripped from the final compiled CSS file. (3) I often use a JavaScript master template to pull in specific javascripts into a single JavaScript file for the browser while also at compile time normalizing whitespace and stripping comments. An obfuscator could be added too... but I don't bother with hiding my code :) -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
