RE: [PHP] Is this doable?

Smarty is the only one that I really remember, as far as template engines. http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/ There are others, like FastTemplate. Do a search on Google or SourceForge and you'll come up with a couple dozen. What they do is separate the code from presentation. Instead of having code in your HTML file to display how many hits the page has gotten, you'd have a tag like {accessed_per_day}. The template engine will do the function to get the number and replace {accessed_per_day} with the appropriate number. ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandman [mailto:mr@sandman.net] > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 3:34 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this doable? > > In article <002e01c20370$4ebee8f0$b402a8c0@mango>, > holmes072000@charter.net (John Holmes) wrote: > > > Can PHP do that? Of course. Can it do it that easily right out of the > > box. No. Just like the RXML backend is already written that parses > > <accessed per="day" /> into the appropriate number, the backend would > > have to be written for PHP to do the same thing. You'd have to write a > > template engine, basically, that'll look for special tags and do the > > appropriate PHP functions when it encounters them. > > > > I think you'd be far better off learning PHP and just adapting an > > existing template engine to suit your needs. There are plenty of them > > out there. > > I have no problem with learning PHP, I like it alot. But in some > instances, > I like the RXML approcah better. > > You talk about template engines, what are they and can you name some > examples? > > -- > Sandman[.net] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php