Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.35

Maybe there can be a tag in the template that allows you to override any
default setting in the .ini file. That would make things pretty
flexible.

{{set cache_templates on}}

Kristian Köhntopp wrote:
> 
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > I guess I just don't see a big benefit to each template describing its
> > own delimiters.
> 
> It does not. There is a set of standard delimiters and if the
> template does not define a different set of delimiters, these
> are used.
> 
> If a template uses a different set of delimiters, there is little
> use to define there delimiters outside of the template, for example
> in an ini-file, because if you copy that template to a different
> installation, you will
> 
> a) almost surely have template which use standard delimiters in
>    that installation, so you have either to convert the newly
>    imported template or the old templates
> b) almost surely forget to adapt these settings so that the
>    imported template will break.
> 
> If all template use standard delimiters by default and these
> templates that do not (for a reason) use these standard declare
> so at the top, templates can easily be switched between installations
> with no adaption problems and without bothering. The format is self-
> contained and self-describing.
> 
> Kristian
>