Re: Seperating Content from code, and making it transparent

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn JoshuaEichorn com>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Joshua Eichorn">
>
> > An example auto prepend file is http://gnome.joshuaeichorn.com/prepend.phps
> > An example auto append file is http://gnome.joshuaeichorn.com/append.phps
> >
> > Does anyone here think this is an acceptable solution or did i miss some 
> > really easy way to do this.
>
> Hrm,
>
> Just thinking about it a bit further, those prepends and appends will affect
> anything that php processes in that tree, so if we need .php files for forms
> processing or whatever, they'll be stuck between the prepend/append code up
> there too...
>
> We have the goals right, we just have to figure out the tidiest way to do it
> without creating an unscalably complicated build system.
>
> - Jeff
A php file would fit just fine into the sytem since its php code would 
be run, you would just have to make it output xml instead of straight html.

The only real issue with generated pages like that would be with caching 
but if they kept a php extension would could use different caching rules 
for them.
-josh