Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

Teodor Cimpoesu wrote: > > Ludovico Magnocavallo wrote: > > > > Just to complicate things further, I was wondering about the use of Zope's > > DTML (Document Template Markup Language -- the ref is at > > > > http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML-HTML/DTML.html) as a > > template markup language for PHP. > > I would really want to know if the devels knows about this beast and > what they think about it. > > I already had my hand on Zope, and DTML looks pretty cool. > Also in DIST/lib/python/DocumentTemplate all the sources are > well documented, so a good python readed should get plenity of ideas. > > > 1 - compatibility with Zope templates > > 2 - adherence to a "standard" or to a subset of it > > 3 - templates commands and vars masked inside HTML comments > > > > On the other hand, DTML looks a little too much, it is a sort of > > programming language in itself. > > Not at all. In fact, everybody complains it's too tight. There were > talking about adding <dtml-python> tag to support inline python code. > hmm, mileages? > Our SmartTemplate design does just that, we can imbed php code: {php:} <? echo "foo"; ?> {/php} We could put this ability into the template engine.