Re: challenging Smarty - componentized template

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Bointon" <[email protected]>
To: "Smarty dev" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [SMARTY-DEV] challenging Smarty - componentized template


> on 14/2/04 22:23, Muhammed Mamedov at [email protected] wrote:
>
> > But still having some questions with the general Smarty work principle,
like
> > for example "Is there a performance difference using {include
file='dddd.tpl'}
> > and {include_php file=''somephp.file}?" I am currently trying `smartize`
my
> > 100% ready and running PHP site and wonder if I have to transform my
.php
> > includes into .tpl files where possible, or including php directly in
> > templates is also ok..
>
> I don't know what the performance difference might be, because you
probably
> shouldn't be doing it anyway. Most of the point of Smarty is to keep code
> out of your templates, or at least keep it to handling presentation logic
> (which is what Smarty's logic is for), so you should not really ever need
to
> include a PHP file in your template.

m@m : You say that it is weird to include php files into templates. Well, I
found this
way to handle componentized templates from Smarty's Manual:( Chapter 18.
Tips & Tricks,
Componentized Templates). They even provide an example there :

 index.tpl
---------
{* Smarty *}
{include_php file="load_ticker.php"} {*  THIS IS THE WAY I DO MY
PHP+TEMPLATE STUFF NOW *}
Stock Name: {$ticker_name} Stock Price: {$ticker_price}

What do you think?..


>
> Including template components is an excellent way to work, I use it for
> headers and footers etc. If you're regularly wanting to include PHP in
your
> templates, either you've got your logic mixed up, or you should perhaps
look
> at writing a Smarty extension...
>

What is extension? Can you describe in brief? I will also check that
myself..

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