[Typo3-dev] Better templating: PHP!

[Elmar Hinz]

> I have recently worked on a system of templating based on....PHP! 
> Basically, using output buffering (functions prefixed with ob_) we can 
> "include.." php/html files directly. This has dropped debugging time 
> from (approx) days per page to (sometimes) seconds or (mostly) mins. 
> Also, syntax highlighting is easy in most editors!
> 

Personally I don't work with HTML-templates any more. Modern accessible 
sites in most cases only use a few tags like div, p, and hx. All in a 
very linar way. Layout by tables (this typical template stuff) is 
completly obsolete. All the rest is done with CSS.

To produce some div, p and hx tags I really don't need any templates. I 
can do it simply in typoscript. That means at the same moment that I 
don't need to spend days in debugging templates. From my opionion it is 
realy better to spend some hours to learn the basics of modern CSS 
technologies then spending days with nerving and heavy weight table layouts.

All I need is a good typoscript-highlighting Editor. I found one. Good 
old emacs. What else?

Regards

Elmar