Posted by Robert Cummings on 04/28/05 20:21

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:20, Ryan A wrote:
> On 4/28/2005 7:08:00 PM, Evert | Rooftop Solutions
> (evert@rooftopsolutions.nl) wrote:
> > Ryan A wrote:
> > >So just because you use smarty you think you are smart and have the right
> > to be smart..who the hell do you think you are??
> >
> > >Sorry, just giving an example of how a jackass with extreme opinions
> > would write on this holy war's volatile topic..... no offense meant
> > > :-)
>
>
> > I would go for a xml-style template engine (start flaming right below
> > this thread)
>
> Flaming??? who has time to start flaming after reading what you wrote?
> am busying banging my head against the wall.

To state the obvious... the above is in actuality a flame disguised as
an excuse.

I use InterJinn, smarty, and PHP as template engines depending on what
the client wants and how much work they want done, and how much
elegance, modularity, and maintainability they want. Of the three I like
smarty the least which is probably why I wrote my own engine :) Oh wait,
I've also used eztemplate which by far takes the cake of horrible
horrible templating. While PHP is itself usable as a templating engine,
it's not what I would call clear and concise when used that way (but
maybe that's because I've come across too many instances where the
previous developer mixed business logic with display logic and then I
had to rework the functionality which was a nightmare :). When using
InterJinn I save the overhead of run-time includes incurred by using PHP
as a templating engine, and I save the overhead of cache checks incurred
by systems like smarty since InterJinn compiles to PHP source code and
does not use a cache (although it can be set to automatically recompile
pages when dependencies change).

At any rate I don't generally post about InterJinn here anymore since
some of the regulars tend to get annoyed ;)

Mind you I don't post much at all anymore since I became a father a year
and a half ago... priorities you know :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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