From: Shu-yu Guo <shu@...>
Date: 2004-03-08T10:20:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for HTML templating system

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:29:41AM +0900, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> I did that in the last forum i wrote, and I hate it :)
> 
Yeah, heh, I would hate it too. But you get the hyperbole.

> 
> Most template systems have "if" constructs, iterators etc...
>
Well, that doesn't mean you have to follow the crowd. PHP boards are quite
poorly written. Thinking of VBulletin's templates gives me the shivers.

> 
> I won't use Amrita because it seems to be a real memory and cpu hog
> (haven't tried the latest version though), and I really don't see the
> point in parsing the whole template with rexml just to exchange a few
> strings. For big complex sites and with caching, maybe - but not for a
> forum that is intended to have speed as its main (but I hope not only)
> feature.
> 

Well, I agree Amrita's quite slow. In fact, for my forum I rewrote an
Amrita-like system using xmlparser instead of REXML. In any case, it's faster.
That aside, I think a majority of the time will be spent on SQL queries. As
for caching, I don't really know how that will work in something like a forum,
where the data could be updated frequently (I assume you're expecting a lot of
users, if you're making speed a top goal).

Good luck with your project. :)

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