[geeklog-devtalk] Optimizing MySQL (was: SPAM Article)

[Richard S. Westmoreland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devtalk at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devtalk] Optimizing MySQL (was: SPAM Article)



> Michael Jervis wrote:

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> >

> >

> >

> >>The problem is that once you decide on a template engine,

> >>you're basically stuck with it ...

> >>

> >>

> >

> >Not necessarily true, it entirely depends on how you design your

templating

> >support. I've seen two alternative approaches to the one in geeklog which

> >mean you can do exactly what you like.

> >

> >The first is to use an adapter pattern and abstract the template engine

you

> >use. Then you can swap out the template engine very easily.

> >

> >

> I'd argue that no amount of abstraction here will make changing the

> template engine easy in 1.3.x.  The adapter simply gives you the clean

> seperation.  You'd still have a sh*tload of code to change/write if you

> added support for another templates engine.

>

> In GL2 we have abstract views (in the MVC sense) that build in support

> for PEAR::HTML_Template_Flexy.  We support that natively but if a plugin

> wanted to use a different template engine (or two together which doesn't

> make much sense) you could.  I guess this just highlights the obvious

> benefits of an oo-design.

>

> --Tony


Do you really have to go as far as objects?  A truly modular program, i.e.
properly separated functions, would suffice?  If you have spaghetti code and
patchwork then I can understand the issue...

Rick