Re: Smarty-like #include?

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TylerCan you tell me if you have shared this tutorial somewhere
thanks a lot

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:02 PM, R. Tyler Ballance <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since this seems to be a common question i'll write up a tutorial later
> today on dealing with template inheritance and mixins with both precompiled
> and dynamically compiled templates
>
> (oblig. top post apologies from my mobile)
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 1:14
> To: Mike Orr <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jon McLean <[email protected]>;
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> Subject: Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Smarty-like #include?
>
>
> Can you tell how to have a hierarchy of superclass templates as mixins in
> Cheetah?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> The proper way is with #def.   You can put all your snippets in one
> template of #def's and #extends it, *or have a hierarchy of superclass
> templates as mixins.*
>
>
>
> We deliberately tried to keep #include simple, to avoid the kind of
> spaghetti code people were doing with PHP when Cheetah was invented.
> If you have arguments and a return value, you want to use #def.  If
> you can get by with just sharing the searchList and possibly a couple
> '#set global' variables, you can use #include.
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 2:16 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2/18/07, Jon McLean <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I've been using PHP's Smarty for a while now. In my Smarty projects, I
>> > usually end up with some include files which get re-used with
>> > different parameters. A simple example might be a template for an HTML
>> > select box, which might get included as:
>> >
>> > {include file="forms/select.tpl" name="country" options=$countries
>> default="fr"}
>> >
>> > Cheetah doesn't appear to allow this in the same manner (the closest
>> > analogy seems to be a bunch of #set globals followed by an #include).
>> > I get the feeling that I'm missing the point here -- what's the
>> > recommended way to do the same thing in Cheetah?
>>
>> The proper way is with #def.   You can put all your snippets in one
>> template of #def's and #extends it, or have a hierarchy of superclass
>> templates as mixins.
>>
>> We deliberately tried to keep #include simple, to avoid the kind of
>> spaghetti code people were doing with PHP when Cheetah was invented.
>> If you have arguments and a return value, you want to use #def.  If
>> you can get by with just sharing the searchList and possibly a couple
>> '#set global' variables, you can use #include.
>>
>> --
>> Mike Orr <[email protected]>
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