[devtalk] Straw poll - templating

[David Precious]

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> I'm working on the development of a content and document management  
> system and I need a bit of advice on how to structure the templating  
> system.
> 
> At the moment, there is a file called page.class.php and within this  
> class is a function that holds the xHTML for the site template.  This  
> is less than ideal so I'm thinking about moving to a more suitable  
> template format.

It sounds almost as though you're trying to write your own templating 
system?

If that's the case, I'd strongly suggest that it's a wheel that doesn't 
need re-inventing.

Have a look at Smarty, which should take care of templating for you.

(Personally I'm a Perl man and I use Template::Toolkit (or 
HTML::Template at work), but if I had to do something in PHP, I'd look 
to Smarty first for templating.

Cheers

David P