> Is there something specifically SMARTY-like you're trying to do? I am still tossing this around trying to figure out the "right" way to go about it. I have developed applications in the past and am working on a new one now where it is desired to not only separate the presentation from the business logic, but also make the presentation such that it could be handed to a designer or business user for modification with any knowledge of how the application works or any ability to influence the application.
Ideally, the designer or business user would have a set of information that is provided to them in the form of variables and a small set of functions to do things like looping or basic string formatting. Smarty provides this kind of separation although they have a lot of functionality possible. ClearSilver provides this kind of separation as well, but their syntax is not real clean. I have considered the custom tag route a couple of times, but it still has the possibility of giving the designer or business user access to more than they need. Of course that might still be a possibility with these other options as well. I have been thinking through this for a while and just wanted to make sure there was not a solution out there that I had missed or some easy way of doing this that I was overlooking. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258613 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
