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Posted by William Gill on 06/27/07 15:17
Toby A Inkster wrote:
> William Gill wrote:
>
>> To do that, wouldn't I have to do the html in a WYSIWYG editor to get
>> the aesthetics, then cut it into a bunch of php print statements?
>
> Not the way I program. Most of my pages contain little, if any, HTML --
> even in print statements. They tend to load stuff (including, but not
> limited to HTML) from database, process them with various functions, and
> then shove them into templates.
>
> e.g.
> http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/demiblog/trunk/blog/includes/Article.class?view=markup
>
> I can't see any place in that file where it would be advantageous to
> "break out of PHP mode".
>
> Besides which... HTML? Aesthetics?! That's what CSS is for!
>
Actually, sometimes when I look at the "finished" product, I decide
aesthetically "this looks better somewhere else on the page", and I
can't tell that until I see the "finished" product.
I would like to do everything in PHP, but don't see how I can look at
things (as a visitor will see them) as I go along. Besides It might be
overkill for the minimal "processing" my pages employ.
I'm not trying to be difficult, but coding in a text editor only doesn't
do the job for me. I need to switch back and forth, and my present
tools don't let me do that with an all PHP page, I need to run it
through a development server to see what my visitors will see, or am I
wrong?
This seems to be the ongoing argument between the "designers" and the
"programmers", unfortunately I'm them :)
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