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Posted by Bart Vandewoestyne on 01/18/07 12:36
On 2007-01-18, aa <a@aa.com> wrote:
> Interesting thing, yet not perfectly clear. If you install it on your local
> machine only, then it is not more than a sort of an authoring assistant, is
> it ?
Indeed.
> If you change, say a footer, you will have to "recompile" all the pages
> using the footer and then upload them?
Indeed.
> What am I missing?
I think you didn't miss anything and understood things right. My
ISP doesn't support PHP so I have to stick with a static webpage.
It isn't a big project, just a simple personal homepage. One
of the problems I'm having is that for now I copy-paste my
navigation to each .html file... and I want to make things a bit
more manageable, so I think my best option is to use some kind of
HTML-preprocessing system to generate the static HTML pages.
So my cycle will be:
1. Modify the templates/content
2. `Compile' the templates/content to static .html files
3. Upload these static .html files to the webspace my ISP
provides me.
For now, I am in doubt whether I will use the PHP command line
client, the Template Toolkit (http://www.template-toolkit.org/)
or htp (http://htp.sourceforge.net/) or anything alike...
I like the fact that PHP is used by many users and is currently
still under very active development (so lots of support). That
could be a good reason to choose PHP and not the Template Toolkit
or htp or a thing like that...
Best wishes,
Bart
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"Share what you know. Learn what you don't."
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