Re: here docs

[toby c. <to...@h0...>]

Lewis Bergman wrote:
> 
> The new here doc support in php4 would seem to be a lot more maintainable than
> the myriad of echo stmt's we use now. What are the thoughts on this? I know it
> couldn't be used when formatting i18n stuff. Would this make it useless.? 
> 
Lewis,

I recall a similar discussion on this list a while back, but I think the 
proposal was to use some sort of template mechanism to make themes more 
flexible in terms of being able to change the layout and not just 
colors, etc.  As I recall, some people were for, some against, so it got 
a "pocket veto."

I'd recommend a look at the templates implementation in phplib 
(http://phplib.netuse.de).  It provides a clean separation between PHP 
and HTML, and it's fast and in wide use.

For the record, I like templates, but I'd propose leaving it until after 
1.0 since it will be a very large undertaking.  In the mean time if 
people are interested we can discuss how we'd set things up.  I've been 
playing around with the phplib templates for a few months now so I may 
be able to help (more than fixing trivial bugs which is the extent of my 
contribution so far).

Thanks,
Toby