Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, 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. > > > > Have you already considered it? > > > > DTML would have a few pros: > > > > 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. > > > > What do you think? > > I don't think this is a good idea. We're not going to support full > functionality of DTML so you can't talk about compatibility with Zope. > I think we should just come up with a good standard of our own and let > others copy us. :) On the other hand there are some nice ideas already implemented in DTML, and I don't see why not import *.them, if they prove useful in PHP templates. -- CIMPOESU Teodor, Web Programmer @ DIGICOM S.A. Bucharest, Romania @ Internet, site development @ see http://internet.digiro.net/