On Thursday 17 April 2008 18:17:13 Dustin Puryear wrote: > Templating. We will be using a templating system to separate code from > the presentation. What have you used? Thoughts?
FastTemplate.class.php FastTemplate.class.php is a port from the Perl CGI Module and has served me well for as long as I can remember in both PHP and Perl. I have never really bother to test against anything else so I am satisfied assuming it does its job well. Maybe you can test it and tell us all about it! A lot of people are using Smarty these days. I do not know why. It is newer and more complex. I have seen directories for caching purposes so surely there are advantages, I just cannot think of a reason why to use it. About caching, I like to use FastTemplate.class.php to recreate a static page when statinc data update are needed; otherwise, simply read the previously created static page. An example of a common update could be the modification to the database for a menu entry from an admin panel. This in itself could save the application a couple queries with a joins per click times the number of users. Alvaro Zuniga _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
