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

[email protected] (Andrei Zmievski) Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:35:17 -0600

Newsgroups	php.template
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, John Coggeshall wrote:
> Okay....
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> {HEADDATA}
> </HEAD>
> <BODY {BODYTAGS}>
> {LINK1}
> {LINK2}
> {LINK3}
> {TABLE1DATA}
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> that won't help anyone... now your asking the developer to become a
> designer... 
> 
> > I'm not imposing my will on you or anything like that. If you like it,
> > then use it, if you don't - well, more power to you, find something that
> > fits your needs better.
> 
> You may not be imposing your will on me... but my contractors DO infact
> impose your will on me. If they start coding their sites like this it's my
> job to deal with it... I can't argue with a contractor paying me -- but I
> can argue with the concept. 

I guess we just have different development paradigms. You receive HTML
code from the contractors and write PHP. We develop web applications
starting from screen mockups and so on, so we know what sort of skeleton
template can be set up. We're never going to be able to satisfy
everyone.

-Andrei

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get
the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
                                        -- Neal Stephenson