There are a ton of template systems. Look here for performance benchmarks: http://www.phpinsider.com/benchmarks_phemplate
Unfortunately pattemplate isn't tested so I don't know how it rates. -----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: June 25, 2002 12:02 PM To: 'Jean-Christian Imbeault'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Seperating presentation from logic You really want a template system. Check out Smarty or patTemplate. Devshed.com has a nice two part tutorial on patTemplate and I like how it looks a little better than Smarty right now. Might want to evaluate both and see which is faster or easier. I was going to give an example of patTemplate, but the devshed page isn't coming up. Basically, like someone else said, you teach your HTML designers to use custom tags that your template engine will recognize and place the correct values for. To make a loop, you'd tell your designers to do something like this <table> <pattemplate:loop> <tr><td><a href='{download_link}'>{filename}</a></td></tr> </pattemplate:loop> It's not exactly like that, mind you, but you get the idea. You can't ever completely separate you designers and programmers. What you do is provide an easy to understand way for your designers to include the programming elements. What's easier, teaching them to put <?=$_POST['name']?> or {name} in the document??? ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Seperating presentation from logic > > Thanks for the links. Hard to figure out what those things are just from > their web pages. They should work on making it easier to figure what the > projects are. > > I'll have a look but ... > > Maybe my message was too vague but what I meant is that my designers > will come up with the site layout, colours, graphics etc ... I want them > to be able to do all their work without thinking about any programming. > > If they want to make a page that lists in a table all the documents we > have from 1999-2001, then they can can do this easily without worrying > about me. > > And just as importantly I can code the scripts that will generate the > table without worrying that maybe in the future the layout will change. > > So I how can I do this? i.e. if the designers want to change the > background colour on one page how can they do this without coming to seem? > > Jc > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
