Re: [SMARTY-DEV] new link

On 5 Dec 2002 at 17:18, Monte Ohrt wrote: > There is a new link on the Smarty home page saying "why use it?", please > read and give me feedback. Tell me things that might be good to > add/change etc. If you're a good technical writer, please feel free to > help or do a complete rewrite, as I don't claim to be. :-) Hi, just read it. Honestly, it was an easy read, which is a good thing. Everything flowed really well. Yet, I've got a couple of comments. You suggested there were 2 roles: programmer designer I've never really found a full-time designer capable of grasping the use of templates. I've either had to always create the templates from work done by designers (that they do in their awful GUIs ) or the company I was at had a "html" guy who was a translator between designer and programmer. I appreciate your description of a need for "presentation logic". That is very, very true. BTW, I happen to be working on a system that was written in Egrail and your example is exactly what I'm running into where the business logic is nearly inextricably intertwined with the presentation logic making it a bear to re-organize but such is my current task. I would suggest you put a subtitle (an attention grabber) called "Business Logic and Presentation Logic" or similar for the section where you talk about that, maybe right above this sentence: 'Now to touch on the "content separated from presentation"'. Also, have you seen this article: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html Different language, but same issues :) To all who have worked on smarty, thanks!! Peter