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fab
Smarty Rookie
Joined: 12 Sep 2003
Posts: 9
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 Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject: Smarty? Nice piece of code. Just a couple of concerns. |
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After completing my first smarty-based application i have to admit that smarty is a really nice and well written piece of software.
I like especially a lot the cache handling and the plugin architecture.
Just to be constructive i'll point out some points than in my opinion are still a little bit weak:
1) backtick operator for concatenation isn't that smart, but rather ugly. Concatenation of strings and variables is still a major headache to me.
2) why the {$array.key} syntax has been preferred to the phpish' {$array[key]} ? Having strings containing dots as array keys means big troubles.
3) non-array-based iterations: well, something like a {for} or a {while}would be nice ...
Hope to see the smarty project growing and becoming even better.
Bye and thx. |
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cablehead
Smarty Rookie
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Posts: 23
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Smarty is really nice !  .. Its plugin architecture really sets it apart from any other templating tool I've come across.
My dream template tool would be a cross between standalone Zope Page Templates - without Zope because Zope is horrible (http://zwiki.org/WhyIHateZope) with smarties plugin architecture drawing on some ideas of boots (http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=102&highlight=) to make use of logical connectedness between block functions ..
ZPT's are good because they are valid xml and look like the end product unrendered.
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1) backtick operator for concatenation isn't that smart, but rather ugly. Concatenation of strings and variables is still a major headache to me.
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I'm surprised you've had to concatenate that many strings inside the template? - we're actually using backtick as a delimiter, and have never had a need for its original use ..
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2) why the {$array.key} syntax has been preferred to the phpish' {$array[key]} ? Having strings containing dots as array keys means big troubles.
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{$array[key]} works too .. $array.key is just a bit more readable for non-programmers ..
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3) non-array-based iterations: well, something like a {for} or a {while}would be nice ...
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Templates are only meant to present data. This sounds like you want the template to generate data? Have you got an example of what you'd like to do?
Andy. |
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