Posted by Skrol29 on 05/02/05 20:02

Mattias Thorslund a écrit :
> Then I wonder what makes skol29 think PHP's "basic template features"
> are "too poor" to be used seriously? I think PHP's "basic template
> features" are phenomenal.

PHP is a nice and powerfull scripting langage oriented for Web
developement. Let's look at what's it can do as a Template Engine.

-> place data items in a template:
HTML ... <?php echo $myvar ?> ... HTML

-> repeat a zone with data items (*):
HTML ... <?php for ($i=0;$i<=$iMax;$i++) { >
HTML ... <?php echo $myvar[$i] ?>
HTML ... <?php } ?>

-> Hide or display a zone:
HTML ... <?php if ($test) { ?>
HTML ... <?php } ?>

-> include an external part or subtemplate:
HTML ... <?php include('subtemplate.php') ?> ... HTML

And that's it. I think you cannot do more without coding HTML with PHP
commands, which wouldn't be making a template anymore.

(*) Note that FOR and FOREACH are the only way for repeating a zone of a
template with basic PHP commands, and that's aleardy an algorithm.
While placing locators into a template shouldn't mean coding.
This is at the limit of template feature.

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