Re: template solutions?

At 5/1/2001 06:49 PM, Michael Kimsal wrote:

The 'security' angle is the only one I consider terribly valid, an was what I had in mind when I said I can't think of too many reasons why a packaged' template' solution is in order. Obviously it is for you. I still believe that in most cases it doesn't make much sense to use one, for most people, because it's limiting you to a subset of a powerful language, and the implementation can be slower. Smarty is on the right track by compiling the templates to PHP and cacheing them. What I'd *love* to see is a template system which is portable between various platforms (JSP, CF, PHP, Perl, VBScript). That would, imo, make it worhtwhile for people to learn *one* templating system that would be cross-platform.

That is where a template system like HTML::Template excels, actually. It is very simple to implement it in Perl, PHP, Tcl, etc etc. Steve