Comments on: PHPTAL - taking the step up from smarty

by: judas_iscariote

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:18:56 +0000

also, PHPTAL is XSS safe by default , that will save you a lot of validation

by: Richard Lee

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:09:49 +0000

Yeah, some of the Smarty code got stripped so had to go do a db edit…I agree,when one of us gets a moment we need to look at whats happening with our code plugin

by: Cameron Manderson

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:09:35 +0000

Hmm the HTML has been stripped. We really have to fix that.

by: Cameron Manderson

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:09:02 +0000

I think we are missing some code here, smarty would have a lot more code if it was complete, something like:

{foreach item=”item” from=$myItems}

{/foreach}

{$item}

by: Richard Lee

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:45:32 +0000

Hmmm just had a read of the PHPTAL site, this idea of moving template actions into XHTML attributes is VERY appealing... My biggest beef with Smarty is the need to add in these "extra" template constructs, i.e. {if $error ne ""} outside of the HTML so to speak. Tell me if I'm wrong but there's this tendency to add complex logic to the templates through these constructs!?.

Here's some quick examples of printing a dynamic table using PHP, Smarty and finally PHPTAL. Which do you prefer?

PHP



<table>

<?php

foreach($myItems as $item){

  echo '

  <tr>

    <td>'.$item.'</td>

  </tr>';

?>

</table>

Smarty



 

<table>

{foreach item="item" from=$myItems}

  <tr>

    <td>{$item}</td>

  </tr>

{/foreach}

</table>

PHPTAL



 

<table>

<tr tal:repeat="item myItems">

<td tal:content="item"></td>

</tr>

</table>

I think I just answered my previous post!

by: Richard Lee

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:14:15 +0000

ARGH! So am I waisting my time working with Smarty?