Re: [PHP Template] RE: [PHP3] template engine example document

Hi, Peter. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Peter Kocks wrote: > > have table rows with alternating colors, the other may not. With the > > system we built, it's achievable. How do you handle it? > > > > with php. > > That's perhaps a bit too snide a remark, especially regarding all the > hard work that Andrei has done with the template stuff. Yet, it does > strike me that php was built for the purpose of making a HTML > templates. php is a very powerful template engine for HTML. I didn't quite understand the above paragraph, because the remark you quouted was mine. > That said, and having reviewed the template examples, I do see the > merit in the {section} concept. It does seem easier than a > traditional for loop. The problem is with all the other stuff, like > another way of doing "if" statements and another way to do comments. > Making now 4 ways of doing comments. > > /* comment */ > <!-- comment > > // comment > {* comment *} Well, HTML comments won't work because they will show up in the output. PHP comments have totally different delimiters, making it inconsistent. > Isn't there a way to get the Andrei's section concept into the php > core, so that we could stick with one form of syntax? I really doubt that's going to be possible. -Andrei * We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. *