Markus wrote:
>
> please give me some enlightment, i'm on searching why template engine
> should use str_replace() function. (read tpl files, find & replace
> {tag}, include tpl file to php file).
>
I can think of two reasons they use str_replace(), (1) that's how it's
done in other languages, Perl, etc., so the technique was borrowed
(unnecessarily) for PHP; and (2) it allows some measure of security in
the templates, i.e., PHP code is not allowed so there's less concern for
malicilous code being added. Smarty documentation talks about using
Smarty to allow end users to build web pages by contructing their own
templates. Those would be the users that you don't want to be able to
add native PHP code to pages.
Someone stated that Savant was using str_replace(), I see it only in the
plugins not the base class. The plugin classes are not required to use
Savant. For my work I use the template class provided by Brian Lozer
http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/
Sheila
PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/
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