[geeklog-devel] caching template library

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 09:24 PM 11/29/2007, Alford Deeley wrote:
>on 29/11/2007 6:00 PM Mark R. Evans wrote:
>>...For example, on the main index page if there were sub-albums, 
>>then I needed a column to display the subalbum info, for those 
>>albums that had none, it just had a blank column.  Now I can check 
>>if lang_subalbum is set, if not, dynamically call a td colspan=2 
>>and use the whole page width for that album display.
>>...
>You don't need a template caching library to accomplish this.  c'mon!
>You can do that easily with the code you have.  It's just one more 
>template variable.

You're missing the point. The code should not decide that the album 
is in a table. The template should. Thus the code should never out 
<td colspan="2">content</td>. It should just output content and let 
the theme's template figure out what that looks like. Of course you 
don't need a caching template library to accomplish a singular output 
format. But you do need a template library with 'if/else' to handle 
certain basic things if you want to separate content from formatting.

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Joe Mucchiello
Throwing Dice Games
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