Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] update

[Chad L. <ch...@ch...>]

We're not really interested in a templating add-on that would require  
PEAR or Smarty. Smarty is bloated and really overkill for the  
project. Writing our own template engine presented a way to provide  
the fastest method of displaying content and allowing users to tweak  
the code with little php knowledge.

-C


On May 21, 2005, at 11:12 AM, da...@d2... wrote:

>> David Fallon wrote:
>>
>>> Ugh, the switch to not using forms openevent stuff was a can o'  
>>> worms.
>>> This would be vastly easier if we used a real template system -  
>>> is there
>>> a reason we're not using one of the template classes from PEAR?
>>> (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.php) I've used
>>> HTML_TEMPLATE_IT, and it works well and the syntax is almost  
>>> identical
>>> (in the template) to what's already there. The code syntax is
>>> significantly different, of course, since all the "hard work" (the
>>> various regexes all over the place) is abstracted out for you. :)  
>>> While
>>> I should learn my lesson after diving into this rewrite, I volunteer
>>> myself to do the switchover if I get approval. This, of course, is a
>>> fairly serious rewrite, but continues my "less code" mantra.
>>>
>>
>> Have you had a look at smarty.php.net? We used to use  
>> HTML_TEMPLATE_IT
>> but smarty has some neat features such as caching that make things
>> faster and other nifty features that make templating easier
>>
>
> I haven't looked at it much, but I will take a closer look. In my  
> brief 5
> sec. glance after your email, two concerns jumped out - the syntax is
> decently different than the existing template stuff in phpicalendar  
> (while
> html_template_it is almost identical), and it's not integrated into
> php/pear, meaning we'd have to have an additional install  
> requirement. The
> second one being the bigger of the two, since I'd definitely recommend
> staying away from any additional install requirements.
>
>
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