Re: Whats more efficient? (Conclusion)

Hey all, Thanks for clearing up my little doubt, I wanted to know if there was a major differience. John, thanks for the reply and I know it makes sense (like all your replies) but I just kind of got my feet wet with php and getting to the interesting stuff, learning while i go along of course. I dont think I can take trying to learn a who new templating language/package while doing this because I hear some of them (eg smarty) can be quite tricky sometimes for the beginner...and I get enough PHP errors so dont want to add templating errors to that :-) Just one last question, you guys can reply to this off list or on: does using a templating engine slow down pages a lot (as i have heard) or increase speed (as i have heard again) ? :-D Cheers, -Ryan Chris Shiflett wrote: > --- "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > >>Use a template engine to separate your presentation from your logic. :) > > > Isn't PHP a templating engine? :-) Of course it is, but what's that got to do with separating presentation from logic (business logic)? Each one can be PHP code... :) Bad answer, I know, because his code could be a PHP "template". I'm sure it's not, though. I just wanted to give a different answer from the many "it doesn't matter" answers. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals - www.phparch.com