Topic: TPL-Engine?!?
Hi,
is it possible to implement a template-engine, Smarty for example?!? It would be a very great feature and would ease the deep-work with punbb...
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Re: TPL-Engine?!?
yemgi wrote:
PunBB already uses templates
Not really, it has a few page templates but thats not the same thing.
The idea of templating is sound enough but a template engine is over the top, particularly smarty. Why bother when php will do the job and save you the effort of learning a templating language.
Re: TPL-Engine?!?
Hi,
smarty simplies a lot of things by providing many plugins or built-in functions or "modifiers" etc...
it's useful to avoid to reinvent the wheel
after that the question is ; is it justify to use it for one project or another, is it not to heavy etc...
punbb plays the card of the lightness so i dont think smarty will be used 
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Re: TPL-Engine?!?
In my opinion a template engine (ie a clean separation of code and markup) would make updates a lot easier and allow for better layout customization.
I went through some frustrations scrolling through endless lines of php/html mix to find that line where I want to change the color of some text..
On the other hand this would mean more or less a complete rewrite of PunBB, who would want to do that?
Plus, smarty has a certain learning curve when you don't want to stick with the basics. It's a bit like a programming language of its own. They overdid it there a bit I think. I mean, what's the use of a template when it's full of programming code?
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Re: TPL-Engine?!?
I went through some frustrations scrolling through endless lines of php/html mix to find that line where I want to change the color of some text
That's what CSS is for...
Re: TPL-Engine?!?
CSS is the answer to many, but surely not all, problems.
So, instead of packing that piece of text into a "span style=color:#something" I could also define a class for it in the css files and assign that.
But in either case I still have to find that bloody string! 
That's what I meant, not that it's difficult to change a color= in general.
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