Re: Template system in PHP

On Feb 12, 2008 4:45 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > > well thats what xslt is, which is pretty nice. > > Nah, I don't bother with XSLT. i know, i just thought id mention it, since xml was brought up and nobodys even mentioned xslt yet. i will likely move away from xslt, but i will be doing something different than the straight php based templating, like in code igniter. thats great for simple projects, but the thing i hate the most is escaping in and out of php, bleh! im still experimenting w/ my solution so i wont bother to share it until its worth looking at, but for the meantime the basic php mechanism is suitable. and i certainly dont use eval()! its slow and it opens holes to attacks. the most simple, way to template w/ php is w/ php, very simply, you will have a file, blah.php and watch how i include another 'template' after the data portion, (the second template is blah2.php <someHtmlTag> <?=$someDataFromPhp?> <?php include('blah2.php'); ?> </someOtherHtmlTag> and there you have it, that is the most direct way to template w/ php, backed by the language itself. there is no need for eval either. i have my reasons for not liking it, but as i said, my system is far from ready and well this is cleaner than writing functions with strings, thats just horrid, imho. whwe, rant finished :) -nathan