Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:59513
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain punkave.com designates 209.85.215.42 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CAKxcST9=m681s4h0jzNhP5BuZ6XJo3THtb2JnjZXqP7UJjW1oA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAORXhG+xFSPmZHsBeTvFdKHP1Zd-dFOqHYXKCdu0XWE=7YxfMg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAF+90c9ZuJ_LkBw2MvSLXacmAERkh=RQ50XgSFPWjYA542Ze_g@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKxcST9=m681s4h0jzNhP5BuZ6XJo3THtb2JnjZXqP7UJjW1oA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:11:48 -0400
Message-ID: <CAORXhGJzL0VpzRhcpPHkZLxZEuj1hfnCm2JGzTQuqynnT3JLww@mail.gmail.com>
To: PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object oriented page templates in PHP
From: tom@punkave.com (Tom Boutell)

There's a reason I didn't try to kick this out as a fully formed RFC (:

The choice of @ is a nonstarter, yes. I forgot that <? is a valid
start code for PHP already so it is already valid PHP to write <?@.

And I have no solution for the nesting problem. It's just an
interesting issue; if it had a good solution PHP might be a convenient
and extensible templating language, as well as being a fast one.

I don't think an explicit syntax for this would be "magic," however
terse it might be. Calling methods implicitly like Java does, that's
magic (:

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> -1.
>
> PHP doesn't need more magic.
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Tom Boutell <tom@punkave.com> wrote:
>> > What if PHP supported a short tag for calling a method of $this?
>> >
>> > Then one could write:
>> >
>> > <?@escape($foo) ?>
>>
>> A big -1 on this.
>>
>> If you want to roll your own template syntax, just do so. It's not
>> that hard to run a quick str_replace('<?@', '<?php echo $this->',
>> $code) over the template.
>>
>> Especially consider that @ is already used for error suppression, so
>> code that previously just wanted to suppress some errors will suddenly
>> try to call class methods (which obviously will lead to fatal errors).
>>
>> Nikita
>>
>> --
>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>>
>



-- 
Tom Boutell
P'unk Avenue
215 755 1330
punkave.com
window.punkave.com