Re: Package Proposal: HTML_Template_Dummy

Martin Jansen wrote:

On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 03:3219PM -0500, Paul M Jones wrote:

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 15:25 US/Central, Martin Jansen wrote:

On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 01:5547PM -0500, Paul M Jones wrote:

Yes, I'm serious; no, the name is not a joke (well, the name is an obvious reference to Smarty ;-). This is a template class for those of us that think it is perhaps a misguided effort to learn a new templating language just so we can separate business logic from display logic. http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/4/1/1/ http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/

Yikes! Do we really need yet another template engine? I doubt so.

Probably not, and I submitted knowing that would be the first response in everybody's mind. It'd be my first response. However, I think Dummy may warrant a quick look (five minutes, no more) to see if it fits a need. It does for me, and I figured it might for others. See my comments with Lukas, earlier. No biggie either way.

There indeed may be a need for this package for some people. However I think that we already have too much template engines in PEAR. Adding more just makes things worse. => -1 Wouldn't the solution be to only have template engines that are truly different like this one instead of a bunch of identical ones