On 9 November 2010 06:20, Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Hansen, Mike wrote:
>
>> I really like the idea of using a templating engine. Which one do you
>> use? Why? For those that don't use templating engines, why don't you
>> use them?
>>
>
> Here's why I don't use a templating engine.
>
> First, You're taking an embedded language and writing a templating
> engine in it. Seriously?
>
> Second, you're painting a single page, maybe 10-15K worth of
> information, and you're dragging 100K of code around just to paint a
> single page. Seriously?
>
> Third, you're creating a page on the fly, thrashing the server's CPU in
> order to generate a page which could be built statically, or at least
> with minimally embedded PHP. Seriously?
>

You assume that the OP will either make static pages (yet posts on the
PHP mailing list) or makes pages that aren't very dynamic in any
sense. Seriously?


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