Re: Using html templates

I'm using PHPLib as well and am not all that happy with it. It was working just fine until our host decided to upgrade to PHP4. After that, any values being inserted to HTML using templates that had dollar signs and values would not display! For example, if you said admission was $15.00 all that would display was .00!!! argh!! I emailed the phplib list and heard others had the same problem. The recent solution has been to modify your phplib code, unfortunately that keeps you from doing a flash upgrade of any future stuff. Which brings me to the next problem. IN a recent thread on the phplib mailing list titled "the future of phplib", a number of interesting points were brought up. In particular, the developers of PHPLib don't feel 'Templates' is the solution any longer, and they make the recommendation to the reader that they learn XML instead. There is a post regarding the future of PHPlib at this URL: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/195/125/4988613/ Unfortunately the site was down when I posted this email so I am unable to quote anything from it. You can make a decision regarding your current and future projects based on the statement made in that post. There are other template solutions, one being Fast Templates. I did use this at one time with success but ported to PHPlib because I required it for sessions in PHP3. There was also discussion about PHPLib Templates being faster. I am reading a book at the moment which lists two other template alternatives but I am unable to make suggestions based on what I've read so far Rob On Wednesday 23 May 2001 08:12 am, you wrote: > I am using libphp and quite satisfied with it. > http://phplib.netuse.de/ > > -- > Tolga 'thorr' Orhon > > ""Jamie Thompson"" <jamie@tempoweb.com> wrote in message > news:NCBBLFOLBDNFPBFAMJEEGEBGCEAA.jamie@tempoweb.com... > > > what is the best way of using html templates to display data from a > > database? > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net