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

At 12:53 AM 3/21/00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: >True, but I actually suspect that peopple with a 'strong opinion' would be >ones that think templates should be as advanced as possible. People who >think that templates should be plain and simple probably don't care about >that enough to subscribe to a new mailing list. People who think that templates should be plain and simple can use FastTemplate or phplib if they want to. I'd rather have something that scales to a wide range of needs. >As this is a section that, if implemented well, may be considered an >integral part of the language, I don't think that just a couple of dozen >people should hear about it. The dedicated mailing list makes sense for >the development info, or specific feature debates; Whether a template >system should be very complex and duplicate large portions of PHP's >built-in functionality, or plain simple and just let you separate your >logic from your presentation (something which is not quite done the way >the template spec is laid out now) is a general concept question, and I'm >sure many more people would have something to say about it. I repeatedly sent messages to PHP3 mailing list asking people to join php-templates list if they are interested in discussing the template engine. Those who wanted to did so. Evidently, the rest don't care about it. -Andrei