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

> Perhaps, I'm missing something, but how would designers complicate your > job if all they do is use {CONTENT} here and there (and they would need > to know the names}? It's exactly the same thing you're doing with your > system right now. This is the bottom line: I am PHP Programmer, My job is PHP Programming... I get to deal with all of those little browser quarks that make Javascript break, DHTML fail and every other blasted technology crap out... That's my job -- to take a designers' vision and make it a reality. The point is that if designers not fluent enough in PHP to code it are, basically, speaking baby-talk to get what they want instead of comming to me it actually tripes the amount of work I have to do because I have to check over, debug and test the code that these designers... who know nothing of programming... wrote. On top of that, I have to learn a new syntax that's NOTHING like the language it's derived from other than it has logic blocks and control statements.. The differences between how I work now and how you propose work be done in the future is staggering -- you are asking me to let a designer that I don't trust to write basic HTML to write advanced control loops and logic blocks using a top-end system which converts this pseudo-language into PHP and THEN processes the PHP Code... FINALLY outputting the page to the user... assuming that designer wrote his code right AND the top-level parsing engine actually parsed it correctly. Furthermore, on the topic of speed, why would I set up a system to let a designer do my job at the expense of execution speed when It's easier for me to write the code myself -- and have the confidence that the code functions as expected and is stable. There are a number of reasons I'm against this... Preference, Real-world Business Concerns, Page Speed and Basic Stablity. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Coggeshall http://www.coggeshall.org/ cogg1256@kettering.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-