templating system

TlcAndres · 02-19-2008, 10:14 PM

Well I'm making a CMS and I've added a basic templating system

Quote:

<{id}>
<{info.id}>
<{info.username.}>

Whats your opinion on adding functions to a templating system? such as {section} from smarty

Quote:

{section name=looz loop=$loop}
{$info.id}
{/section}

Wildhoney · 02-19-2008, 10:26 PM

Not at all keen. Slow for one, and also it's making up a completely new language -- aren't there already enough of them? In my opinion you should use the alternative syntax where HTML is involved:

php Code:

<?php foreach($aIceCream as $szIceCream): ?>
    Yum! <?php echo $szIceCream ice cream!
<?php endforeach; ?>

TlcAndres · 02-19-2008, 10:52 PM

Well my templating class parses and caches the files so they'd end up from

Quote:

{section name=looz loop=$loop}
<a href="index.php?c={$info.id}">{$info.id}</a>
{/section}

to (essentially..there are some finer points missing)

PHP Code:


			
<?php

foreach(array_keys($arr) as $key)

{

   ?><a href="index.php?c=<?php $arr[$key][$req_key[$i]]; ?>"><?php $arr[$key][$req_key[$i]]; ?></a>

<?php

}

?>

Though yes, the learning curve concerns me.