Re: Re: Question about template systems

On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 03:08 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:

Robert Cummings wrote:

function hiddenInput($document,$name,$value) { $input = $document->createElement("input"); $input->setAttribute("type","hidden"); $input->setAttribute("name",$name); $input->setAttribute("value",$value); return($input); }

imo, I'd much rather have the simple syntax of phacade, rather than use the Dom Api directly; if I were using this approach in practice.

Does that answer your question?

That was what I thought. Cheers, Rob.

Is there a reason I shouldn't be doing it that way?

I didn't say you shouldn't. It's just expensive on every page request to regenerate a document node by node. it also strikes me as tedious :/

it's way less tedious if you curb the syntax, which was my motivation for the system I posted earlier. The idea was to make it feel just like writing xhtml, but really it's just php code. it's definately an expensive approach, but at least using native code for most of the heavy lifting should make it way faster than a straight php solution (using the same approach). -nathan