Re: [PHP Template] A suggestion

Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > At 04:16 PM 2/29/00 -0800, Dan Libby wrote: > >It is a common enough requirement that I think designers may need to do it > on a > >semi-regular basis. Further, it is a more general escaping mechanism than > >html escape, > >which doesn't escape newlines, tabs, etc that people often need escaped. > > So, how about: > > escape = html/url/none (or should it be 'no'?) IMHO "off" would be easier to understand, when disabling some feature. Ifear templates are getting far too complex to the average designer: most of them want to read a 15k user manual filled with example and start to write down something, rather than try to figure out how the engine will default this and this For example the problem about {{ section sec1 }} {{ $foo }} {{ section sec2 }} {{ $foo }} {{ /section sec2 }} {{ /section sec1 }} should IMO avoided at all, by restarting the array internal counter unless told to do otherwise ie {{ section sec1 }} {{ $foo }} {{ section sec2 }} {{ $foo DONOTRESTART }} {{ /section sec2 }} {{ /section sec1 }} or something similar. Maybe it would be a good idea to make all keyword and option verbose, to look like spoken english insted of tech jargon. I worked with some designers here in Italy, and all of them consider computer and computer program being dump (it's often true, btw ;); we should keep templates as simple as possble, so a semi-illeterate designer could start working and get productive using default values and behaviours, and then learn (if he wants) some more. This is probably one of the main reason of PHP's success: it's easy to start, but rather powerful in the hands of a programmer. -- Filippo "Cyrix Haldir" Caprioli Email plc1997@iol.it Webmaster, Developer & Unix Admin ICQ 1886191 http://www.nextgame.it http://www.retroplay.com