Re: [SMARTY] Re: Smarty and Sessions

Good Luck Johem:

Please post your new class when U have it sussed.

In the meantime me gonna continute using Smarty cos it works for me
ie sperating application code from presentation code.

Thanks smarty dev's
me luv it ;-)
pedro

Jochem Maas wrote:
> boots wrote:
> 
>> Just to add another fan to this fire, I never thought much of Smarty
>> automatically providing autoglobals to the template. It really is a
>> break from its tradition of providing a clean environment where the
>> caller specifies the characteristics of the environment. Not that one
>> should see that as a stabbing knife to use on the devs -- it was a bad
>> design choice that obviously seemed like a good idea at the time. I
>> suspect it was added during a younger, more "innocent" period of the
>> internet. Unfortunately, it is now caked in.
> 
> 
> to be clear: I wholly accept that.
> 
>>
>> If you are really paranoid, you can probabably clobber untrusted
>> autoglobals in the PHP namespace before running your template but that
>> is a poor work-around. I would certainly vote to have this "feature"
>> become optional.
>>
>> That said, what's with the animosity towards the devs and their
>> very-correct goal of trying to keep Smarty clean and simple? Does a
>> contradiction invalidate all of their efforts? Finally, why is this
>> discussion on smarty-general? It is one thing to hijack a thread, it is
> 
> 
> sorry for hijacking - put that down to laziness - I have now sent a 
> subscription
> request to smarty-internals - I'll monitor that as well and try my best 
> to keep
> any relevant comments,questions,ideas,queries,etc to correct list & thread
> in future!
> 
> actually my concerns go out mostly to php5, the BC argument is strong and
> therefore I'm really theorizing/thinking about goals/functionality in terms
> of how/what is implemented at a stage when BC will have to be broken in 
> some
> way - this assumes that:
> 
> 1. the Smarty code itself will eventually be refactored
> into php5 (a very good candidate given the heavily documented and very well
> structured code - e.g. some of the methods are 'dying' to be made 
> 'private')
> 2. the template syntax will eventually support php5 syntax (e.g. static 
> class
> syntax, dereferenced syntax)
> 
>> another to hijack it and change the topic to something no longer
>> appropriate for the channel.  BTW--those are rhetorical, I don't expect
>> or require responses, thanks :)
>>
>>
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