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PHPTAL PHP TEMPLATE ATTRIBUTE LANGUAGE
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INTRODUCTION
_PHPTAL_ is a PHP implementation of ZPT work. To be short, PHPTAL is a XML/XHTML template library for PHP. While most web developpers continue to use ASP/JSP/PHP tags as the core language of their templates, the Zope community came with a refreshing idea named TAL. The idea was to move presentation actions inside XHTML attributes instead of using plain tags or elements. Let's start with a simple PHP exemple (usually reproduceable in
ASP/JSP):
hasDate()): ?>getDate()?> getUrl() ?>">getTitle()) ?>
Let's have a look at the TAL way:
Now it's up to you to choose which version you prefer. Of course those tal:condition, tal:replace and tal:repeat may looks strange when
begining with TAL.
Just for fun let's modify this example:
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My item title
This is a sample content which is replaced by the real content when the template is run with real data.
More in the manual . SOME PHPTAL ADVANTAGES AND FEATURES: * enforces the separation between logic and presentation (the holy
grail),
* warns you if you forget to close an HTML tag or have syntax errors
in your template,
* no more htmlentities(), * quite clean and readable templates, * ability to insert sample text inside template to preview template result without PHP backend, * integrates quite well with WYSIWYG HTML editors, * data abstraction using XPath-like system, * cool HTML macro system, * integrated internationalization system (using gettext or your own
backend),
* ability to replace XPath-like system with PHP expressions, * nearly no speed loss (templates are compiled, expensive expressions can be replaced with plain PHP). * compatible with PHP accelerators, which can improve performance
even further,
* more than four years of ZPT community support (see zope website
),
* extensible and easily hackable code, * makes good use of PHP5 and SPL. SOME PHPTAL DRAWBACKS: * a dependency for your application, * some TAL, METAL, I18N and PHPTAL attributes to understand, * you'll have to produce clean XHTML (PHPTAL can output HTML5 too). Newsfeed | Contact | © 2005-2013 Motion-Twin , Aardvark Media Ltd.
