Re: template solutions?

At 5/1/2001 01:43 AM, Michael Kimsal wrote:

I understand completely what you're getting at already, but PHP is designed to do what you're asking to do. I know there are valid reaons for stripped down implementations, but can't think of too many.

Clean separation of content and presentation? That is one strong point (for some people anyway). Ease of use? I want to let *other people* customize the web page to some extent, but surely do not want to require them to learn PHP. Security? I do not want other people to have access to the PHP runtime (where they can do nasty things like stealing my database password, etc). PHP currently does not support any restricted execution of user code whatsoever. For some applications, sometime I don't even want people to *know* that I am using PHP.

And actually, I would consider RTF or PDF to be languages unto themselves. There's a full syntax to use to get specific results, and if you're throwing conditionals in there, or variables, it's hard to see how it's not a language. Maybe not full-featured, but a language nonetheless.

I agree. But you said earlier, "programming language". Programming languages are used to create *programs*. These perhaps can be loosely called "document languages". -- sh