Re: templates with php

> My main beef with templating systems is that they do not give the > designers enough credit. And the ones that do, do so in a way that the > poor designer ends up learning a complex and useless tag language (like > CF) that doesn't translate to anything else. I agree very strongly with your comments. The underlying problem I see is the common tendency to oversimplify problems. Just pretending that generating HTML on the fly is a simple task does not actually make this true; a system built on that philosophy will be nothing but kludges because it's based on an incorrect assumption. Anyone who can write HTML or JavaScript at a professional level can handle basic PHP. The difference is that by not pretending that this is all easy, you avoid situations like Cold Fusion where you quickly run into the language limits and have no alternative but to use C or Java unless you want to port all of your code to a more capable environment.