Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.52

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dan Libby wrote: > I agree that the spec has become too complex. In particular, the use of @, $, > % have confused me almost as much as perl does. ;-) I doubt that the target > audience (designers, html writers) will grasp this easily. Further, I still > question the need for includes and for config file access, both of which I > believe belong in the realm of the php code. > > I even question the need for template level conditionals, given that a > template writer could simply define two sections which the PHP code is able to > choose between and and selectively display/hide. > > Of course, I may be biased since that is about what I already came up with. I want to add that this time I wasn't just saying what my personal thoughts were, but was representing the impression I got from quite a few hardcore PHP developers, that developed applications with the layout being written by others. All of them replied 'no way?!' (or something along the lines of this) when I asked them whether templates should have logic (control structures) inside them. About the many prefixes for variables, I didn't notice this before (I was mostly concerned about the logic control structures), but I tend to agree they're quite high in the infamous WTF scale. If you're dealing with programming-challenged people, you shouldn't use all of these confusing prefixes... Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/