Re: Re: New thread - Template base class design

On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Hans Lellelid wrote:

Greg Beaver wrote:

$tpl = &$tpl->create('savant'); // or $morecontrol = new Template_Foo; $morecontrol->doSomethingSpecialForFoo(); // initialize a new template from an existing sub-template $tpl = &$tpl->create($morecontrol); // etc. ?>

Damn, that's a cool design.

Not sure I understand that part yet. Me dumb. :-( But the part I do understand, the assign-to-property bit (which is *awesome*, thanks Greg!) I have put into my example implementation here, with attribution:

    http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Savant&page=TemplateSource

It really does simplify things, just beautiful. Goes to show you how easy it is to get in a rut and not think of alternatives; I've been on the $vars (and then $vars/$refs) thing for a 18-24 months now. Much more elegant this way. -- 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: your collaborative online documentation system. http://yawiki.com/ Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/