Hello,
I have a prototype Flexy templating plugin for Symfony.
This is similar to sfSmartyView, but using the Flexy engine:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.html-template-flexy.php
Before making it available (and hence supporting it), I first
want to gauge the interest / response of the community.
Why a template engine? My company rapidly develops web
applications using "specialists" - our HTML designers
don't usually know a lick of PHP, though they often scream
if the developers get a pixel out of place.
We used to spend a lot of time "recoding" HTML -> templates,
and that time is better spent on developing the application.
With Flexy and the right layout file layout, we can actually
use the same .html documents as the templates, with very little
changes - and usually none that stop it from rendering correctly
when viewed "straight" in a browser.
This is a BIG gain all around for us.
Why Flexy?
First, compared to other templating engines, Flexy's syntax
allows us to gain the advantages above. Simple looping can be
handled in the tags themselves, rather than external constructs
(meaning layout don't move out of place when rendering
the template file directly in the browser).
Like other templating engines, variables are visible to
the browser: {sf_content}
HTML people get that's a placeholder, and can see it.
When using generated CRUD, all that has to be done is add
one line to the top of each template to make it "work"
nearly identically to the standard PHP templates.
(Symfony can understand <?php ?> tags, so things "just work")
This means all the symfony PHP helpers and idioms are still
available to use as necessary.
What's next?
The code is definately "prototype" - it works,
but not optimally.
If there is an interest in using Flexy with symfony,
I'll make a few updates and release the prototype.
I'm still unsure on the best ways to do certain things,
for example make native symfony helpers native to Flexy.
And there's a lot that can be done to make it integrate even
more tightly, for example add an alternate crud-generation
that would use native Flexy templates.
I'd like to see this fly, so let me know if you are interested
in either using or helping develop the plugin.
Thanks,
Nick
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