Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:
> 
> Anne wrote:
> >
> > Monte Ohrt wrote:
> > >
> > > 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"}
> > >
> > > Another idea, we can have a config file that maps template markup to php
> > > commands, so the extendability of the template tags is very flexible.
> >
> > I like the above idea.
> >
> > There is nothing more frustrating for a designer than to have to go back
> > and forth with the coder just to get couple words to display on the
> > screen in a particular format that depends on a condition where a
> > varible is assigned a specific value.
> >
> > I like having the flexibility of using if statements to format dynamic
> > content. But it sounds like that breaks the rules for the ideal
> > template. Right?
> But how about a flexible way to define new tags (least in DTML you can
> do that).
> This way you can ``customize'' your template tags with handy tags for
> your need.
> The idea with the mapping may be good but I think it's silver bullet,
> cause you
> will loose performance (lookup+eval()ing).
> 

That is actually what I meant with the mapping. With a config
file, define a new tag and give it a php function mapping such
as the :date example given above.