Yes, phtml is pure HTML with PHP alternative syntax:<div><a href="http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php">http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php</a><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---</div><div class="gmail_quote">Victor</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Bernhard Posselt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nukeawhale@gmail.com" target="_blank">nukeawhale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Viktor,<br>
<br>
Yeah, HAML is great :)<br>
<br>
Could you provide a link to your templating engine, I dont find any<br>
information on that on Google. Or do you mean PHP in general (phtml as<br>
in the extension)?<br>
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On 10/09/2012 04:20 PM, Victor Dubiniuk wrote:<br>
> Hi Bernhard,<br>
><br>
> I have a long experience with Smarty and tried a couple of other template<br>
> engines. Most of them is nothing but PHP written in PHP.<br>
> There are some brilliant exclusions like Slim and Haml in Ruby but both are<br>
> not implemented in PHP completely.<br>
> I consider phtml to be the best option for templates. One can say it is<br>
> weird for designers but any other non-HTML syntax is weird for designers<br>
> either.<br>
> It's just my humble opinion. :)<br>
><br>
> ---<br>
> Victor<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Bernhard Posselt <<a href="mailto:nukeawhale@gmail.com">nukeawhale@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi guys,<br>
>><br>
>> I've ran into multiple problems with the current template engine setup.<br>
>><br>
>> * Lack of documenation:<br>
>> Since these are only used by Owncloud, we have to maintain the<br>
>> documentation on the template engine. Using a third party engine would<br>
>> simplify documentation since we only would have to document how this is<br>
>> built into Owncloud. Not to mention that there isnt actually any<br>
>> documentation about the current templating engine at all from what Ive<br>
>> found (<a href="http://api.owncloud.org/classes/OCP.Template.html" target="_blank">http://api.owncloud.org/classes/OCP.Template.html</a>)<br>
>><br>
>> * Lack of template inheritance:<br>
>> Currently we can only organize templates by splitting them into<br>
>> different parts and including them in a Top-Down like fashion. Template<br>
>> inheritance solves this kinds of problems (an example:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#template-inheritance" target="_blank">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#template-inheritance</a><br>
>> )<br>
>><br>
>> * Weird and unsafe XSS escaping:<br>
>> Most important topic for me. We currently escape values when they're<br>
>> assigned to a template like $tpl->assign('var', $var). If you dont want<br>
>> to invoke the XSS protection on the variable, you use<br>
>> $tpl->assign('var', $var, false) which is really weird and non obvious.<br>
>> Also: What do we escape? IIRC variables and arrays, but what about<br>
>> objects? We at the news app pass an array with objects to the template<br>
>> layer. Are the properties escaped? If they are, this could lead to<br>
>> potential weird behaviour, not to speak of the performance impact<br>
>> (reflection). As you see, theres no sane way to do XSS escaping when<br>
>> passing values to the template layer.<br>
>><br>
>> The solution? Easy: escape the values when they are printed to the<br>
>> template. Most template engines forbid you to use PHP in the templates<br>
>> (which is a good decision) and provide their own print statements like<br>
>> Django's {{ variable }} or Rail's <%= variable %>. All printed values<br>
>> are automatically escaped by default! If you want to prevent escaping<br>
>> you just use a filter like {{ var|safe }}. The word safe alone gets me<br>
>> thinking: why is it called safe? What are the risks?<br>
>><br>
>> * Allowing PHP code in templates:<br>
>> This is not only a security problem stated by the previous point, but<br>
>> also an invitation to code mess. Allowing PHP code in the template<br>
>> tempts people to disregard the MVC principles (like for instance doing<br>
>> database queries in the templates, we have that problem too, I admit),<br>
>> which makes your templates really inflexible and really hard to change.<br>
>> Everytime I try to clean up our templates or adjust them, I give up in<br>
>> frustration because I'd have to adjust all templates, some of which are<br>
>> generated in a recursive way and thus also very complicated to understand.<br>
>><br>
>> Coming from Django I've looked at two similar engines:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.h2o-template.org/" target="_blank">http://www.h2o-template.org/</a><br>
>> <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/" target="_blank">http://twig.sensiolabs.org/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Both have good documentation, Twig doesnt do autoescaping but theres a<br>
>> block for that. I'm curious about other suggestions, and it would also<br>
>> be fine if they could be reviewed from a security context.<br>
>><br>
>> PS: Sorry for the long post, here's a potato<br>
>> <a href="http://efr0702.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/potato-b.jpg" target="_blank">http://efr0702.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/potato-b.jpg</a><br>
>><br>
>> Cheers<br>
>><br>
>> Bernhard Posselt<br>
>><br>
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