Re: Var Templates

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:22:05 -0700 (PDT), Boots wrote: > I'm not trying to give you a beating!! That comment was not directed at any single individual :) > I checked your actual suggested problem and you have to admit that that > is EXACTLY the type of thing that config files are NOT meant to handle [SNIP] > Indeed. You may have noticed that I'm not really a big fan of config > files. That is because they require a seperate class for access, are > not compiled, and then require a very different syntax to access their > variables from within templates. Furthermore, as you argument rallies > against, they are completely static (which can also be argued as a > virtue). I completely agree, config files have always been static, but I've come to a point where that is not enough. I realize that my request sort of breaks everything about config files being static. > That's why I've been leaning towards suggestions that attempt to unify > config files with templates. I have no problems with that, you might as well scratch everything about config files and rather call them "pre-defined variables in a file". All this would require is implementing my idea (roughly) :) > Perhaps there are other ways this can be addressed, for example, with a > new template block {config}{/config}. This block can be made to work > just like config files except, as a template function, would also > permit for standard template functionality. Or perhaps the existing > inline {php} in templates is sufficient (yuch). No, bad idea > Sometimes it is > just as easy to change the design of your code as it is to say that > your code won't work because Smarty doesn't do such and such. Yes, I know... but my idea is clever, it's all in here *points at head* :) > xo boots > PS. By I disagree that using templates to assign vars (via eval) is any > more expensive than config files; however, straight PHP is the least > expensive thing you can do here and probably the most "correct", > whatever that means. Which is why we have pre-compiled templates *drools* Anyway, we can babble about this all day, it's basically not going to change anything (since we don't develop smarty) or solve my problems, which I am slowing giving up any hope of solving my-way. -- Tom Sommer, Denmark www.tsn.dk - www.dreamcoder.dk