RE: [htmltmpl] Re: Patches for HTML-Template-2.5.tar.gz

[Cees H. <ce...@si...>]

Quoting Kenny Smith <ke...@jo...>:

> >> 5. add TMPL_DEF tag for defining new parameters
> >>
> >>         <TMPL_DEF NAME="NAME" VALUE="value">
> 
> >I don't like this.  Mixing display logic with setup of variables is a very
> >dangerous thing.
> 
> I don't even know what this is really useful for? If you are hard coding
> the
> definition of a variable in your template, why can't you just hard code
> that
> variable where you use it?

You can simulate most of this functionality already with the TMPL_INCLUDE
directive. Just create a new file with just the value of your template variable,
and then TMPL_INCLUDE it wherever you want it.  This has the added speed benefit
of being done before Caching takes place.

This would get messy if you have a lot of these constructs though, and they
wouldn't be available for use in TMPL_IF or TMPL_LOOP statements.

On that note, I would not recommend adding this feature in...

Cees