Re: My stab at the templates

[Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug org>]

On 18 Jun 2001 23:27:41 -0500, Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> I know PHP has been stated time and time again as the preferred 
> choice, but I must point out that it really doesn't look too 
> maintainable when you start to discuss serious themability and 
> especially multi-lingual sites.

Do you know from experience? I guess I ask because I've seen a few
multi-lingual sites happily using PHP, (eg, mandrakeforum.com,
sourceforge.net, any PHP-Nuke based site).

> My solution to this problem:
> 
>   http://www.eventloop.com/fabric/
> 
> It works extremely well in the theme and multi-lingual areas.  And 
> there is *total* seperation between code and templates, which makes
> it really easy to let translators edit text without the need for 
> digging through code or other methodologies.

While I can admire the separation provided, my gut reaction is *yuck* as
it is java based. I think Java is overkill for any website as PHP is so
much faster to learn and use. 

I think we could come up with a way to use PHP and keep translatable
stuff separate from the code at least. Like I mentioned in my email, I
didn't even try to consider i18n. It sounds like Joakim has a bunch of
changed cooked up anyways, so I'm sure what I wrote will get
trashed...which is ok because I just want to get people actually working
on it ;0)

Any other opinions?

-- 

Steve Fox
http://k-lug.org