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

Andrei,

I think the bottom line is the "no way" response you got at the PDM (not
only from Zeev) when mentioning having control structures in your
template engine.

In the beginning you will just have eq & ne support then slowly people
will want more and you'll add support for more complex expressions and
loops; in the end you'll end up with another scripting language with the
same functionality as PHP but different. It might be a better language but
do you really want to go this way? You are in fact starting a new language
and PHP scripts floating around in the community will have some written in
the original language and some in your template language. This is not a
path we want to take.

By the way, if the content editors are so dumb I still don't understand
how:

<IF blah eq "foo" >
....
</IF>

makes it so much easier for them to learn than:
<? if (blah == "foo"): ?>
...
<? endif; ?>

I understand the need for templates such as variable substitution (the
simple templates) and I have helped you with all your scanner/parser
questions you have had, but I think you should really listen to what we're
saying. You're rewriting a new language! And it actually even happens to
be the cold fusion path of a language. You're free to write a new web
scripting language if you want, but I wouldn't mix it in with PHP.

Andi