On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:19, Jon Anderson wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > Simplistic examples don't properly illustrate the mess that occurs in > > complex situations. > However, a simplistic example does properly illustrate my point nicely. > I could even take one of my complex multi-page smarty templates, run and > perl script to convert it, and end up with a PHP template that's just as > clean as the Smarty template by virtue of being basically identical. > > If you split up your logic and your presentation layers, then your > templates can be nice and clean, even if they're written in PHP. It's > just much easier to shoot yourself in the foot with a PHP template. > > (Again, I have nothing against Smarty or other template systems. I use > Smarty all the time, and I quite like it.)
Been there done that. I split my stuff up very well into modular chunks thank-you-very-much. I still prefer a template engine. But then I guess you like passing arrays as parameters or have set order to your function parameters. I prefer to use custom tags where the attribute order is unimportant. Incidentally custom tags look just like HTML, flow just like HTML, and validate when a tag is left open. Can provide semantics as well as content. You can keep your PHP soup. <?php if( userLevel( 'admin' ) ){ ?> blah blah blah blah blah <php? } ?> <myProject:restrict level="admin"> blah blah blah blah blah </myProject:restrict> Yep, I'm not going back. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php