I dont believe the following is explicit:
$url = sfHelper:get('url');
$url->link_to('@blah');
What is $url? Ahh, its an object. Which method does it have? This is
not clear for a designer.
About extending and overriding helpers: What does most helpers do?
They print HTML. How would you extend this behavior? Call the old
helper and do a series of preg_replace() calls or just append some
more HTML? I dont see why you need OOP inheritance and polymorphism
for this. Just create a need helper and tell you designer to use this,
or as another mentioned: do a search-and-replace in your existing
templates to call the need helper.
/Andreas Gehrke
On Jul 4, 10:20 am, "Tristan Rivoallan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Gehrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I agree. Templates is for designers and helpers should be easy to use
> > and very explicit. Designers don't know OOP and shouldn't be forced
> > understand it.
>
> > Please keep the existing explicit syntax. It works great :-)
>
> > Btw, the above discussion clearly bear the mark of being between
> > developers. Shouldn't this decision at least be discussed with the
> > designers whom actually are going to use the functionality?
>
> you are right : it must remain explicit and clear for designers.
> but developers being able to override default helpers is also a good
> thing for designers, as developers could provide better tools to them.
>
> i don't think that anyone needs to understand oop to write
> $url->link_to(); or $form->checkbox_tag(); ? Actually, it makes more
> sense + wouldn't designers be happy to get syntax hints +
> documentation as they code ?
>
> ++
> tristan
> ++
> tristan
>
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