Re: Facelets for PHP

Hi David, I know at least one framework that can do it. It's called Xaja: http://www.thecodingmachine.com/ext/xaja/doc/ In fact, it is doing much more than just providing facelets since its main purpose is to provide reverse ajax features. It already supports a number of custom tags, and especially, it provides a wrapping of the ExtJS Javascript library. You can have a look at the doc here: http://www.thecodingmachine.com/ext/xaja/doc/widgets/about_widgets.html The technique to write additional components still lacks documentation but if you have a look at the code, it is not that difficult. And I can provide some help. I'm sure there must be other frameworks around providing custom tags. Any one know another one on the list? Regards, David. Disclaimer: I am the main developer of Xaja :) On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:19:42 -0400, David Greenberg <greenberg.d@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > It is very likely that there is already a framework out there somewhere > that > does this, and that my searches are just too primitive to find it. Please > bear with me. > > I would like to structure a site where every page is written in pure XHTML. > In addition to the standard XHTML tag validation, I would like to > reference > a tag library that allows custom "components" to be added to a page. For > instance: > <form> > <h1>Input here</h1> > <myns:suggestionInputText /> > </form> > > I would then like to use PHP to translate this into XHTML that can be sent > as an HTTP response. Moreover, I would like to be able to define custom > components using XHTML pages. The concept comes from Java Facelets. The > main point here is that PHP generates a minimal amount of XHTML/JavaScript > for each component, while the pieces are put together by running a PHP > program against a pure XHTML file. > > Is there already a framework within PHP to do this, or would it require > custom development? > > Certainly the possibly implementations are endless, and something like XSLT > would be a natural step towards one. I am, however, holding out some hope > that a framework already exists, and that I won't need to worry about this. > > Thank you, > David