Re: [PEPr] +1 for HTML::Template_Savant

On Jun 8, 2004, at 4:10 PM, Greg Beaver wrote:

I want 1 Savant in PEAR, and I would prefer to see it used as a basis for flexy, if that is possible. In other words, I think parallel Savant and Flexy with savant-like code isn't a good idea, because the implementations don't differ enough, and sigma/it is enough of a confusing issue. Having worked with both you and Alan, I think you would be a mighty fine team, if you can work out the technical differences and unify to something that is better than your Savant or Alan's Flexy implementation of Savant. I do feel that since flexy works and savant works, there is no emergency to get a great solution by Saturday, and if this takes a while to get it right, that is OK too. My vote is for Savant to be in PEAR in one form or another as a lightweight, simple template engine. It is not enough for me to have savant's features in Flexy, but I do like what Alan's doing, so I would like you two to work together, if possible, on splitting things apart into savant and flexy extends savant, that would be very good for us users. I have not coded either template engine, however, so if both of you feel that it would be better to have savant as a separate thing from flexy, then I am full +1 for savant in PEAR. It's a complex situation, I hope this email clears up my vote.

It does. Will this satisfy your condition? "I, Paul M. Jones, hereby swear, attest, and affirm, that if Savant is voted in to PEAR, and if Alan Knowles is willing, I will immediately seek to work with Alan Knowles to build a common Template code base from which both Savant and Flexy can extend in order to simplify everybody's life and have a common template engine for all of PEAR and PHP world to benefit from." Let me know if that's what you mean. :-) -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: a collaborative online documentation system. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Yawiki Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/