Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.52

At 02:31 PM 3/20/00 -0800, Dan Libby wrote:
>I agree that the spec has become too complex.  In particular, the use of @, $,
>% have confused me almost as much as perl does.  ;-)  I doubt that the target
>audience (designers, html writers) will grasp this easily.  Further, I still
>question the need for includes and for config file access, both of which I
>believe belong in the realm of the php code.

Grasping this will be a matter of good documentation and clear examples.
People learn HTML which is way more complex that this template language.

>I even question the need for template level conditionals, given that a
>template writer could simply define two sections which the PHP code is able to
>choose between and and selectively display/hide.

Exactly, PHP code would need to do that. But our designers _love_ having
conditionals because they can quicklyi and easily use them for their purposes.

-Andrei