Which template mechanism is best?

[FancyToy]

The one defined in PHPLIB, or FastTemplate?

I'm trying to collect a general opinion on that...

FancyToy

[PaulKroll]

PHPLIBs is poorly documented, and they seem to name functions in such a way as to purposefully mislead.

FastTemplate, last I checked, was less flexible than PHPLIBs, if you knew what PHPLIB was doing.[nbsp][nbsp]Neither of these is so superior that I'd avoid making my own, which most of the time, can be str_replace() just as effectively and probably faster.

No one, as far as I know, has done what I would consider the height of template madness and grace: to build a template out of JavaScript, where all the links made a request to the apache server for only the Template Fields (Title, Body, Navigation, what have you) and only that data was returned: then the JavaScript re-writes the page with the appropriate template filled in. Minimum bandwidth, maximum speed. If you rendered the Template Fields output to static pages... Anyhow, it's a dream I have. (In this dream, >I< don't have to maintain the JavaScript code... :) )
[This message has been edited by PaulKroll (edited 10-25-00@01:00 am)]

[Hunkorama417]

Actually, I prefer Richard Heyes' template class. It's the best I've seen in PHP. http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/
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[FancyToy]

Hey guys,

Thank you very much for your comments.

I will check Richard Heyes' template class and decide if I should use it or attempt to be more creative.

As described in my previous messages, I am on a quest... ;-)
Therefore, you are going to see me post on this board again and again.

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FancyToy