On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:12, Ryan A wrote: > Hey all, > > Thanks for clearing up my little doubt, I wanted to know if there was a > major differience. > > John, thanks for the reply and I know it makes sense (like all your replies) > but I just kind of got my feet wet with php > and getting to the interesting stuff, learning while i go along of course. > > I dont think I can take trying to learn a who new templating > language/package while doing this because I hear > some of them (eg smarty) can be quite tricky sometimes for the > beginner...and I get enough PHP errors so dont want to add templating errors > to that :-) > > Just one last question, you guys can reply to this off list or on: > does using a templating engine slow down pages a lot (as i have heard) or > increase speed (as i have heard again) ? :-D
TemplateJinn (part of InterJinn :) is a compiling template engine. You can run it from the command line (or via a compile page) to generate your site, in which case there is no overhead whatsoever since the output is embedded PHP in content. The other style is to have it automatically compile missing files that have yet to be compiled, or compile updates -- this has a small overhead while it checks dependencies at page load time. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
