Re: template engine...why???

At 4/30/2003 07:56 PM, Salah Faya wrote:

I also use a template system is to give the layout designers complete freedom

regarding the look without the need to teach them PHP.

Not to keep beating this discussion, but I'm at a loss for understanding this argument. If your designers are using CSS-compliant designs, even if they're using a table or two for layouts, PHP still makes templating easy. What's to keep them from doing: <div id="header"><? heading(); ?></div> <div id="content"> <? menu(); ?> <? leadArticle(); ?> <? oldArticles(); ?> </div> <div id="footer"><? footer(); ?></div> Is that really so complicated? Your PHP code is in those functions, all the designers need to know is what the output looks like. And if your output is clean paragraphs and divs, then the designers can worry about the layout with CSS. Even if the designers wanted to add more complexity to things like the headline, you could still hide the PHP behind functions, so all the designer would have to know is <? theDate(); ?>, or <? theUsersName(); ?> and so on. Can someone please tell me what your designers are doing that's so fantastically complex? Because I'm not seeing it. -- S. Keller UI Engineer The Health TV Channel, Inc. (a non - profit organization) 3820 Lake Otis Pkwy. Anchorage, AK 99508 907.770.6200 ext.220 907.336.6205 (fax) Email: skeller@healthtvchannel.org Web: www.healthtvchannel.org