Re: Way to output HTML on professional websites

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:39:06PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:46:29AM +0100, Florian Müller wrote: > > > > > Hi guys > > Just a little question: I've programmed some nice little websites up to 25'000 > > lines of code. > > Now if I see some bigger websites just as facebook and so on, how are they printing their > > website out? > > Does it work like > > <?php echo "<html><head>..."; ?> > > or do they output it like > > <?php if (true) { ?> <body> > > </body> <?php } else { ?> <head> > > </head> <?php } ?> > > Or is the code even generated or gotten from a database and evaluated? > > How does the website itself gets printet on really professional websites? > > Thanks for answer! > > You're asking for an opinion. In mine, if you have to call fifty files > before printing a byte to screen, you've introduced too much complexity. > I just finished up five weeks at a company where they were calling > probably upwards of 100 files before printing anything on screen. Have a look at smarty: http://www.smarty.net/ I like it a lot ... helps with complicated web sites. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h>