Posted by Jason Barnett on 04/30/05 01:14

Mattias Thorslund wrote:
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> Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody. What are the
> "basic template features"?

Variables / placeholders
Looping construct(s)
Conditionals
A way to apply styles to text / markup

> However, there is a school of thought regarding templates that advocates
> template engines (written in, for instance, PHP) which use PHP as their
> template syntax, so that there is no need to invent new tags or
> placeholders. You could read the article I linked to before, it has
> examples. Actually, here's the link again:
>
> http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/
>

The point of this article is that PHP is a good template engine ;)

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