Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP Template] Template Discussion

John, You're asking too much of a designer and giving too little. Sure we could learn php but it would take as 10 times as long, it's not what we do best, and it's not what we want to do. We want to design and we want our design to look the way it was intended. Take for example Photoshop, designers don't care about how a blur filter works. We just know that we need it and all we have to do is click a couple buttons and drag a slider to make it happen. We don't have to write our own plugin. If we did, we wouldn't use it. So why can't templates work with the same philosophy in mind. Give us the minimum of what we need to make what we need happen, without us having to write php code. If designers are the target for the template engine, design it with the designers in mind. If templates are for programmers, make them as complex and philosophy fitting as you want. Developing templates to solely satisfy the philosophical goal of separating form from content, in theory is a revolutionary concept. But, realistically it's like separating siamese twins. One is going to have to give up something for the other. John Coggeshall wrote: > > >This one is obvious to me just by looking at it. Plus, there's not much > >chance of me doing something to screw it up. > > {section} > (@name} <br> > {@address}<br> > {@phone}<br> > {/section} > > It's broken. > > Don't use syntax errors as a excuse to re-write the syntax. > > John -- Anne Holz | anne@ispi.net art director | ispi | voice: +1.402.441.3295 http://www.ispi.net | fax: +1.402.483.5418