[Bendug] Templating systems

[pauld@bendtel.net]

Can we kick your head?  Couldn't hurt...

I saw Cake, a PHP/rails-ish clone.  Never used it, but it seems that if
you HAVE TO use a non-Ruby product, because, oh I don't know, YOU'RE
SELLING OUT TO THE MAN, that Cake on PHP would be cool.

Are you going MARK?  C'MON!

> Lately I've been looking at various templating systems trying to figure
> out what to use for a project I'm kicking around in my head.  Also because
> I want to rewrite our main PHP application at work to seperate the
> presentation from logic.  For the latter, I was thinking about Smarty, but
> it seemed to add a lot of complexity without the kind of gain I was hoping
> for.  I use erb when writing Ruby a LOT, and I dig what it allows me to
> do, but I am starting to get a feel for why people have written so many
> replacements for it (Nitro has it's own, there is Amrita...  Hell, search
> for "Ruby template" and you will find a ton of them).
> 	Recently I ran accross this one, but haven't looked at it much yet:
> http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwartz/  Sounds good on paper.  What templating
> engines have you guys used and liked?  Which ones suck and why?
>
> --TimH
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