Re: Contribution for PECL

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 03:34:25 +0100 "Maxx" <demiurg@ono.com> wrote: > Smarty is a one of the best engines I've ever seen, but it has a totally > different ideology of templating, and can not be compared with > php_templates. Despite of the fact that it has too much code to be parsed > for every request, and therefore needs something like ZendCache to be > installed on the server for faster work, this is a one of "language inside > of a language" projects. You still have to be a programmer to create > Smarty's templates. > This topic is being discussed continuously among web developers and can be > considered as yet another never-ending ideological (religious?) war like > "Linux vs. FreeBSD", "Intel vs. AMD", etc. I will gladly discuss this issue > with you personally, but I'm afraid [pear-dev] is not the appropriate place > for this kind of discussions. I am a big fan of simple template engines like IT[X] and don´t like the language-in-a-language approach, too (which is one of the reasons why I don´t use Smarty :-)). So I´d like to see such an extension in PECL - and what I´d like to see even more once it´s been committed, is an enhancement for IT[X] that uses a factory method to spawn either a "classic" IT[X] object, or one that makes use of the much faster php_template extension - depending on the extension´s availability on the system. This way, one could always use the same familiar API and make of the faster solution whenever possible. Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>