Re: [PHP3] Template Discussion

At 00:16 22-03-00 , Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > The template spec may be designed to meet a specific project or a project
> > paradigm in ISPI, and I guess it does, since Andrei said a couple of times
> > he needs each and every feature for an upcoming project.  I can't argue
> > with that.  I can argue on whether this should be PHP's 'official',
> > standard approach towards templates.  I think it shouldn't be, and that we
> > should have a much simpler, presentation-only templating system built 
> into PHP.
>
>I don't actually think we should choose sides here either way.  If
>somebody wants a templating system that includes loops and conditionals,
>they are likely going to get it from somewhere.  It would be nice if PHP
>could accomodate them.

Well, my entire point for the argument was that it would be bad if PHP 
featured this as a standard feature.  Supporting everything is always the 
best thing to do, when you're introducing new standards (which is different 
than supporting existing standards, btw).


>You didn't comment on the approach I described of having a template
>description file that configures a template engine to behave in certain
>ways.  This would make PHP nicely template neutral but still provide most
>of the features people are looking for in a template system.  The trick is
>obviously how the heck to build a parser that can change its brains on the
>fly like that.

I guess I didn't understand it completely, but if you it's basically a tool 
that almost lets you generate languages, I don't think it's a good thing to 
do.  Simply put - there should be just one syntax to write logic in PHP, 
and that's PHP syntax.  That's my opinion.

Zeev
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