Re: Templates: reality check

When I first started looking for a Template engine (a long time ago), I found the amount of engines on PEAR so confusing I just went with smarty. I _know_ there are users out there that find it very confusing. "Alexey Borzov" <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote in message news:40C96BB1.3020003@cs.msu.su... > Greetings, > > Current download stats for PEAR template engines: > HTML_Template_IT: 59,577 > HTML_Template_Xipe: 21,420 > HTML_Template_Sigma: 19,318 > HTML_Template_PHPLIB: 17,014 > HTML_Template_Flexy: 7,565 > > I don't see any engine dying from lack of attention, I don't see hordes of > mythical "confused users" complaining about the number of template engines in > PEAR. But I do see that our role model template engine is the one least > downloaded by real PEAR users. > > On an "official PEAR template engine". Last time I checked (around PHP version > 4.3.6), a specific template engine (HTML_Template_IT) was bundled with PHP's > installation. Are there any plans to unbundle it? > > For those working on common interface / base class / whatever for templates, I'd > like to propose the following test. > > HTML_QuickForm is able to use 4 template engines for its output (ITX or Sigma, > Smarty, Flexy) via customized renderers. I challenge the developers of the Grand > Unified Template with the following: write a renderer for QuickForm that will > use only the methods available in this interface / base class / whatever and > that will be able to output the form through any of the template engines you > decide to support.