From: messju mohr <messju@...>
Date: 2004-01-17T04:47:20+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML templating that works in more than one language?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:46:14PM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Ruby,
> 
> Friday, January 16, 2004, 4:29:56 AM, you wrote:
> 
> RB> Has anyone seen an HTML templating system that would be
> RB> usable from Ruby *AND* PHP and perhaps other languages?
> 
> RB> So far, if you want your HTML templates to do anything
> RB> more than simple variable replacement that the template
> RB> language becomes a lot like the language it's written in.
> 
> RB> I'm thinking particularly of Smarty (for PHP): 
> RB> http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/smarty.for.designers.php
> 
> RB> Do you think a Ruby class could ever parse Smarty templates,
> RB> including basic 'each' logic like this:?
> RB> http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.foreach.php
> 
> RB> Any other advice appreciated.
> RB> This is just for HTML templates, that need logic and loops,
> RB> but we might have a project that uses both Ruby and PHP,
> RB> and of course we don't want to re-write HTML templates
> RB> for each.
> 
> 
> I doubt that this is usefull because you must embedd a complete
> php interpreter in ruby.

smarty converts templates written in it's own language to php-code and
runs this php-code. there is no php-code in a smarty-template.

if a ruby class converts the same template to ruby-code no
php-interpreter is needed.

but smarty was written with 100% php in mind. the structures may not
map that nicely to ruby. but i'm sure it's possible if somebody want
to put the effort in it.

greetings
messju

> The only way to go seems to be the amrita way with a templating engine
> that works on pure html. I know that there is something for python
> (the ZTL Zope Template Language).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Lothar                            mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com