Re: Question about template systems

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:46:40 +0000, stuttle wrote: >[...] >As far as templating systems go I personally don't think they add anything >to the equation unless you're working with designers who are already >familiar with something. Separation of logic and content is important, >abstraction away from PHP is not (IMHO). Yeah, I've been meaning to ask about that myself - what benefit is there in using something like Smarty, which requires learning yet another set of notation, over just having a class/interface for the page and calling methods on that in plain-old PHP from the template? --- the PHP page (e.g. index.php) --- <?php $page = new YourPageClass(); require_once 'include/template.php'; --- template.php --- <html> <head> <title><?php $page->showPageTitle();?></title> ... <?php $page->showCustomHeaders();?> </head> <body> ... <?php $page->showMenu();?> ... <?php $page->showContent();?> ... </body> </html> --- snip ---- For that matter, why go with Smarty over the more widely supported (across multiple languages) XSL? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the point of special templating systems that require you to know yet another notation set, i.e. abstraction away from PHP as Stuart puts it. -- Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia "Click me, drag me, treat me like an object"