Re: [PHP Template] A suggestion

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Cyrix Haldir wrote: > 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 You're right. The problem is using boolean value off/false/no for non-boolean attributes, like 'escape'. I mean, if you allow 'off', you'd have to allow 'on' as well, and then what does 'on' mean? Use default? > 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 And it will be! > unless told to do otherwise > ie > {{ section sec1 }} > {{ $foo }} > {{ section sec2 }} > {{ $foo DONOTRESTART }} > {{ /section sec2 }} > {{ /section sec1 }} Well, you'd use $sec1:foo or $sec1/foo (I haven't decided yet) to refer to the value of $foo as it exists in 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. Ok, but we don't want to turn into COBOL. :) Actually, having easy to understand syntax (and as close as possible to HTML) is probably good. That's why I'm thinking $sec1/foo would be a natural way to refer to variable inside another section (it's sort of like a path). Who knows, maybe you could refer to a variable in another template with $tmpl1/sec1/var1. -Andrei "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Pablo Picasso