Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

Yes it is redundant, but it could possibly be handy. An example that
we've ran into, The designer would like a way to quickly throw the
current date into the template. To do this, the developer would have to
make the date available in a variable first, then the designer can use
it. OR, they could do a quick PHP parse:

{:php}
	echo date();
{:/php}

On the other hand, we could always be extending functionality of the
template engine. Maybe there could be this type of tag:

{:date "now"}


Anothe idea, we can have a config file that maps template markup to php
commands, so the extendability of the template tags is very flexible.

Monte

Darrell Brogdon wrote:
> 
> I agree.  It seems like all of this other stuff is redundant to what PHP
> already does.  Just thinking from my perspective, it would be nice to be
> able to let our designer build a web page and just include a few simple tags
> that brings in all the back-end development our developers have done.
> 
> If I've missed something here please feel free to clue me in. :)
> 
> -D
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Libby <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP Template] DTML?
> 
> > What's the point of this?  The whole theory behind using templates is
> separation
> > of display (HTML) from code.  If you want to mix the two, you may as well
> use
> > standard PHP which allows just that, eg:
> >
> > <P>My name is <?php echo $myname; ?>.</P>
> >
> > If our template system allows arbitrary mixing of code and display, then
> it has,
> > in my opinion, lost its reason for existing.
> >
> > -dan
> >
> > >
> > > Our SmartTemplate design does just that, we can imbed php code:
> > >
> > > {php:}
> > >         <? echo "foo"; ?>
> > > {/php}
> > >
> > > We could put this ability into the template engine.
> >