Gary Mort wrote:
Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
Greetings all --
The current thread on beginner to intermediate has brought up Smarty;
I have been wondering about the relative advantanges of PHP
templating engines.
A templating engine has two purposes.
2) It provides a simplified mechanism for changing the presentation
logic, without requiring changes to complex code.
People have tried to convince me to use Smarty for Andromeda and I could
never quite swallow why because it seemed to me that PHP *was* the
templating language. I also didn't like what I saw as a lot of
redundancies involved in invoking a smarty template.
But yesterday Donald Organ convinced me quite thoroughly. The argument
was that your creative person who doesn't know PHP and never will can
put a smarty template into Dreamweaver, play around with it, and hand
you back something that you can just drop in.
Further, since everything we do assumes the presence of a complete data
dictionary, we can just generate that tedious code that maps smarty
variables to PHP stuff, and it could be quite a win.
--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
www.secdat.com www.andromeda-project.org
631-689-7200 Fax: 631-689-0527
cell: 631-379-0010
_______________________________________________
New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List
http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online
http://www.nyphpcon.com
Show Your Participation in New York PHP
http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
