Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

Yes it is redundant, but it could possibly be handy. An example that we've ran into, The designer would like a way to quickly throw the current date into the template. To do this, the developer would have to make the date available in a variable first, then the designer can use it. OR, they could do a quick PHP parse: {:php} echo date(); {:/php} On the other hand, we could always be extending functionality of the template engine. Maybe there could be this type of tag: {:date "now"} Anothe idea, we can have a config file that maps template markup to php commands, so the extendability of the template tags is very flexible. Monte Darrell Brogdon wrote: > > I agree. It seems like all of this other stuff is redundant to what PHP > already does. Just thinking from my perspective, it would be nice to be > able to let our designer build a web page and just include a few simple tags > that brings in all the back-end development our developers have done. > > If I've missed something here please feel free to clue me in. :) > > -D > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Libby <danda@epinions-inc.com> > To: <monte@ispi.net> > Cc: <php-template@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:02 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP Template] DTML? > > > What's the point of this? The whole theory behind using templates is > separation > > of display (HTML) from code. If you want to mix the two, you may as well > use > > standard PHP which allows just that, eg: > > > > <P>My name is <?php echo $myname; ?>.</P> > > > > If our template system allows arbitrary mixing of code and display, then > it has, > > in my opinion, lost its reason for existing. > > > > -dan > > > > > > > > Our SmartTemplate design does just that, we can imbed php code: > > > > > > {php:} > > > <? echo "foo"; ?> > > > {/php} > > > > > > We could put this ability into the template engine. > >