Re: [PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-08 Thread James Williams
> Hi everyone, > > Thanks for your replies. I Think I haven't been very clear about what I > really need. First of all, I don't need an existing templating system, > because I am working on my own templating system. > And regarding Satyam's post. This looks a lot like what I'm developing > right n

Re: [PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-08 Thread Evert | Rooftop Solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 May 2005 Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote: What I really need is a fast lookup mechanism, to 'translate' statements. For example: setOutputType('xhtml'); echo(translate('authorstart')); the function translate opens xhtml.data, which contains: authorstart : authore

Re: [PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-08 Thread trlists
On 8 May 2005 Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote: > What I really need is a fast lookup mechanism, to 'translate' > statements. > > For example: > > setOutputType('xhtml'); > echo(translate('authorstart')); > > the function translate opens xhtml.data, which contains: > > authorstart : > authore

Re: [PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-08 Thread Evert | Rooftop Solutions
Joe Wollard wrote: Evert, Have you looked at smarty (http://smarty.php.net) ? It doesn't do exactly what you're talking about but it seems to be the "Fastest templating mechanism" that I've tested; probably one of the most versatile as well. Cheers! -Joe www.joewollard.com Evert | Rooftop Solut

Re: [PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-07 Thread Joe Wollard
Evert, Have you looked at smarty (http://smarty.php.net) ? It doesn't do exactly what you're talking about but it seems to be the "Fastest templating mechanism" that I've tested; probably one of the most versatile as well. Cheers! -Joe www.joewollard.com Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote: Hi all,

[PHP] Fastest templating mechanism

2005-05-07 Thread Evert | Rooftop Solutions
Hi all, I'm working on a template system which works a bit like a text translation block. The data looks for example like: beginblock endblock beginauthor endauthor The list is going to be very large, it will have several overlays and not all pages need all items in the list. (usually just a