[brlug-general] PHP help

[Alvaro Zuniga]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 18:17:13 Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Templating. We will be using a templating system to separate code from
> the presentation. What have you used? Thoughts?

FastTemplate.class.php

FastTemplate.class.php is a port from the Perl CGI Module and has served me 
well for as long as I can remember in both PHP and Perl. I have never really 
bother to test against anything else so I am satisfied assuming it does its 
job well. Maybe you can test it and tell us all about it!

A lot of people are using Smarty these days. I do not know why. It is newer 
and more complex. I have seen directories for caching purposes so surely 
there are advantages, I just cannot think of a reason why to use it.

About caching, I like to use FastTemplate.class.php to recreate a static page 
when statinc data update are needed; otherwise, simply read the previously 
created static page. An example of a common update could be the modification 
to the database for a menu entry from an admin panel. This in itself could 
save the application a couple queries with a joins per click times the number 
of users.

Alvaro Zuniga