Re: [phplib] Compiled templates vs. parsed From: Christian Stocker (chregu <email protected>)
Date: 03/27/01

Hi

Maybe you want to have a look into the Cache-Classes in PEAR. They do,
exactly what you want and they have a phplib container (therefore you're
not forced to use pear::db...)

you can get them from the php-cvs (see http://cvs.php.net) or with
php-4.0.5rc2 (don't know the adress, where to download that)

if questions about it, just ask

chregu

On Today, Andreas Aderhold wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using phplib for about 2 years now an I'm wodering about the template
> thing. Templates in general are great - since I hate mixing markup with
> logic.
> PHPlib uses parsed templates. This is very time consuming for bigger sites
> with more hits (than a "That is me"-Site), and in my opinion totally
> unnecessary.
>
> The layout defined by the templates does not change - so why parse it every
> hit?
>
> I think it would be much more effective to compile the templates into mixed
> php-code (for runtime), that runs much faster. Smarty does this very well,
> but couldn't it be a feauture of PHPlib?
>
> Another approach (the best I think) is to compile the templates directly to
> plain HTML and include the html. Well this is a bit tricky, 'caus not only
> if the templates change, also if database records change, the templates have
> to be recompiled. The time-overhead to check for changes is minimal compared
> to parsing and accessing the database for each and every hit. For big sites
> this is very cool, since the load on the database is reduced to a minimum.
>
> It would be more than nice to have a such a tpl engine in PHPlib. What do
> you think about that? BinaryCloud seems to take this approach in future
> versions.
>
> cu, andi
>
>
> For the record:
> Smarty: http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/
> Binarycloud: http://www.binarycloud.com
>
>
>
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