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You can go this far, but no further... (Score:2)

by bart (450)

Templates are a nice concept, and I don't mind putting some logic in them, but, not too much.

So, how much is too much? Well, this much: a templating system may embed values of variables, apply filters to them (for example HTML escaping), provide simple conditionals, include other templates. And that's about it.

A templating system should not provide ways to connect to a database or to invoke SQL. Your controlling program should already have taken care of that.

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- Re:You can go this far, but no further... (Score:1)
  
  by chromatic (983) on 2007.07.06 21:27 (#56033) Homepage Journal
  
  A templating system should not provide ways to connect to a database or to invoke SQL.
  
  That would have fixed PHP, back in the day.
  
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    by Matts (1087)
    
    No. They would have still provided a broken mail() command.

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