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nightowl · 01-07-2009, 01:09 PM

2 questions about PHPTal:

- first of all, I'm used to putting all logic concerning a certain part of the app in 1 PHP page. eg. a form to search and show results, would be in 1 PHP page with a show_form() and a search() functions, and a "if (!isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) show_form() else search()" statement. You get the point. What is the best way to do this, using PHPTal? AFAIK, you can only define 1 template in a file (contrary to e.g. patTemplate, which I used before).

Is the best way just using <tal:block condition="sumitted">...show results...</tal:block><tal:block condition="not:sumbitted">...show form...</tal:block> ?

- about the 3-dimensional array solution in this topic: isn't the goal of a templatingsystem that it should make the viewing of data unrelated to the php code ? If you first need to define the number of cols in your php code (by defining the array in such a way), then what is the goal of the templating? I'd like my template to make the decision about the number of cols ...
Is that possible?

01-07-2009, 01:09 PM	#22 (permalink)
nightowl The Wanderer Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 8 Thanks: 1	2 questions about PHPTal: - first of all, I'm used to putting all logic concerning a certain part of the app in 1 PHP page. eg. a form to search and show results, would be in 1 PHP page with a show_form() and a search() functions, and a "if (!isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) show_form() else search()" statement. You get the point. What is the best way to do this, using PHPTal? AFAIK, you can only define 1 template in a file (contrary to e.g. patTemplate, which I used before). Is the best way just using <tal:block condition="sumitted">...show results...</tal:block><tal:block condition="not:sumbitted">...show form...</tal:block> ? - about the 3-dimensional array solution in this topic: isn't the goal of a templatingsystem that it should make the viewing of data unrelated to the php code ? If you first need to define the number of cols in your php code (by defining the array in such a way), then what is the goal of the templating? I'd like my template to make the decision about the number of cols ... Is that possible?