Re: [PHP Template] Revised proposal

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Dan Libby wrote:
> Right.  I imagined something similar.  However, to me this implies that it will be
> the template itself that is specified in the URL, not the PHP file.  This means that
> the template processor must register another mime type with the webserver to handle
> template files.  It really changes the paradigm, and I didn't go forward with it.
> What does everyone think?  What do other templating systems do about this, if
> anything?
> 
> I suppose an alternative is that your top level PHP code will have a specific
> template associated with it.  It will do the first tpl_load(), and after that the
> templates may choose their own PHP files.  This means you would need to have at
> least one .php for each top level template.  I find that pretty gross.

That's true, but I don't think polluting MIME type namespace is a good
idea. I'm not sure what to do about this, so I just put it out of my
mind for now.

-Andrei

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