I am more interested in theory right now than anything else. Currently my web development is 80% PHP and 20% Apache Module. The Apache module is currently a handler for my images and controls security.
I have adopted a template type of approach with the PHP code, I found this utility class that allows me to place 100% of my HTML into "template" files and keep the PHP pure code. I think the concept is pretty standard: The PHP code determines which templates to use to build the page. Then the PHP sets all the variables for those pages. And finally it calls the utility class that actually builds the page replacing the variables in the template with the values I set in the PHP. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like what folks are doing with input and output filter in Apache modules. I am starting to think that it is possible to develop a whole solution solely as an Apache module and simply have it filter HTML template files filling in "variables". Is this how folks do it? Sam
