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

> The philosophy that I subscribe to is that PHP script should not have a
> single line or string that will appear in the output. Everything that
> can appear in the output should be in the template. That way, it can be
> easily localized and so on. With the example that you gave, you compose
> pieces of HTML in your PHP script, in my personaly opinion, that's bad.
> Maybe the word 'template' means different things to different people.
> You want it to be just a set of placeholders where your PHP script
> places the things it composes.

No... remember what the point of templates are... to separate the PHP code
from the HTML code... yes.. I know I am creating HTML code with PHP code
but the point is that I can completely design a layout in pure HTML with
placemarkers, repeating blocks for tables of data, etc. completely,
without another language and without forcing designers to learn even the
most basic PHP Syntax.... a Designer could design an entire site that is
just as powerful as any template language could be. It's the developers
job to deal with logic blocks -- not a designers

> 
> So, you're saying you don't trust anything new?
> 

No, but will I trust a site I'm putting my name on to a designer that
doesn't know anything about programming using a watered down
version of a programming language -- that I don't know to boot? 

No. My clients deserve better.

John