Re: [UseBB-Development] Template engine

[Joren de G. <jor...@gm...>]

I think this <http://www.tinybutstrong.com/article_3rd_kind.html> may
explain better then what I've written below.

2007/3/25, Joren de Graaf <jor...@gm...>:
>
> Hi Dietrich,
> I'm not sure how to reply to this message (doing it from Gmail).
> But I've suggested the use of the TinyButStrong<http://www.tinybutstrong.com/>template engine before on the UseBB forums.
>
> At a first look this engine may seem very different and difficult but it
> does in fact perform the same way of processing like Smarty does, only the
> big differences between the two are that:
> Smarty code is something like this:
> {foreach $posts as $post}
>        <h2>{$post->title}</h2> <p>{$post->content}</p>
> {/foreach}
> {if $user->loggedIn}
>        <p>Welcome back {$user->name}!</p>
> {else}
>        <p>Hello, please <a href="{... code to show register link
> ...}">register</a>!</p>
> {endif}
> (posted in another message of this mailing list.)
> -----------------
> TinyButStrong code looks like this (from my personal portal that
> interfaces with UseBB 1):
>             <div class="menucnt">
>                 <h3 class="wimg">[flang.UserPane]</h3>
>                 [onload_sess.level;block=div;when [var.sess.level] =0]
>                 <p style="font-size: 11pt;padding-left: 2px;">
>                     Welcome, [flang.Guest]!<br/>
>                     Please <a href="[var..cst.ROOT_PATH]panel- login.html">login</a>
> or <a href="[var..cst.ROOT_PATH]panel-register.html">register</a>.
>                 </p>
>             </div>
>             <div class="menucnt">
>                 <h3 class="wimg">[flang.UserPane]</h3>
>                 [onload_sess.level;block=div;when [var.sess.level] > 0 & <
> 3]
>                 <p style="font-size: 11pt;padding-left: 2px;margin-right:
> -2px">
>                     Welcome back, [var.sess.displayed_name]!<br/>
>                 </p>
>                 <ul>
>                     <li><a href="[var..cst.ROOT_PATH]panel-logout.html ">[
> flang.SiteLogOut]</a></li>
>                 </ul>
>             </div>
>             <div class="menucnt">
>                 <h3 class="wimg">[flang.UserPane ]</h3>
>                 [onload_sess.level;block=div;when [var.sess.level] = 3]
>                 <p style="font-size: 11pt;padding-left: 2px;">
>                     Welcome back, [var.sess.displayed_name ]!<br/>
>                     <span style="font-size: 10pt">Your last visit was on:
> <i>[var.sess.last_login;frm='dd mmmm yyyy']</i></span>
>                 </p>
>                 <ul>
>                     <li><a href="[var..cst.ROOT_PATH]panel-logout.html">[
> flang.SiteLogOut]</a></li>
>                     <li><a href="admin.php ">[flang.SiteAdminPane
> ]</a></li>
>                 </ul>
>
>             </div>
> ---------
>
> What the code above basically does is checking which user level the
> current user has (0-3: guest - admin) and displays the corresponding block,
> not parsing the other blocks. The {foreach} statement from Smarty is
> achieved by TBS by simply reading the 'block=' argument from the code.
>
> This alows for much cleaner and smaller code to be written that does the
> same thing the Smarty code does. Also, this code is much easier to be read
> by users who don't know PHP. In adition to that, the code can also be viewed
> in virtually any WYSIWYG editor.
>
> I think that this solution is deffinately worth looking at.
> Good luck,
> Martijn (martijn at UseBB forums)
>
> 2007/3/24, Dietrich Moerman < die...@us...>:
> >
> > Melissa schreef:
> > > I have never heard of XSLT; I'll have to take a look at it.
> >
> > XSLT is a system based on XML and XSL. The data passed to the template
> > is XML data and XSL code inside HTML is used to place the data in place.
> > This is the same as the push principle I explained before with a
> > template syntax that is somewhat standardised (XSL is a W3C
> > recommendation). However this requires PHP to have a XSLT parser enabled
> > all the time, and probably a whole bunch of extra processing time.
> >
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