[Owncloud] Problems with the current template engine

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Tuesday 09 October 2012 16:06 Bernhard Posselt wrote:
> I've ran into multiple problems with the current template engine setup.

There's an app for that ;) 
I have made an ownCloud implementation of Zope Page Templates [1], which I 
plan to release around the same time as oC 4.5. For those not familiar with 
ZPT I wrote an article about it some months ago [2] also containing links to 
documentation - which there is lots of. I have a draft follow-up article 
mainly listing the ownCloud specific modifications I have made.
The app is based on the PHPTAL library [3][4] which is very well tested. There 
is a (low volume) mailing list at [5].

On Tuesday 09 October 2012 16:42 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> I´m against replacing it with something that generates a huge amount of new
> work and introduced new bugs and performance problems instead of working on
> topics that are important for our users like bugs and feature requests on
> bugs.owncloud.com

I agree that fixing bugs is more important, but having a solid templating 
engine, which could actually help avoid bugs, is imho more important than 
implementing feature requests.
 
[1] https://github.com/tanghus/tal#readme
[2] http://tanghus.net/2012/07/tales-of-a-metal-cloud-1/
[3] https://github.com/pornel/PHPTAL#readme
[4] http://phptal.org/
[5] http://lists.motion-twin.com/mailman/listinfo/phptal

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Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus