Re: Template engines

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:20:52 -0500 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Hansen, Mike wrote: > > Here's why I don't use a templating engine. > > First, You're taking an embedded language and writing a templating > engine in it. Seriously? > > Second, you're painting a single page, maybe 10-15K worth of > information, and you're dragging 100K of code around just to paint a > single page. Seriously? > > Third, you're creating a page on the fly, thrashing the server's CPU > in order to generate a page which could be built statically, or at > least with minimally embedded PHP. Seriously? > > Fourth, you could achieve the same end result with carefully crafted > PHP embedded in your static HTML file, with actually very little more > work. > > I know, everyone's heard this before. But just because you *can* do > something doesn't mean you *should*. Beautiful put! --- Mange venlige hilsner/Best regards Kim N. Lesmer Programmer/Unix systemadministrator Web : www.bitflop.com E-mail : knl@bitflop.com > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >