[TYPO3-hci] Login Screen

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> We don't need it that much for the login screen, but we definitely need 
> it for a true rewrite for the BE when we want a real skinnuing API. 
> There's so much hard coded stuff that is neither easy to maintain nor 
> flexible when it comes to minor local changes.
> 
> At least we should try to use the MVC paradigm or any other means that 
> separates logic from output.

I agree with that, but I also agree with what Georg says. I don't think 
we need such a sophisticated templating engine. The main interested of 
Smarty is its cache management and I don't think it would be very useful 
for an application such as the TYPO3 backend. Furthermore it *is* quite 
painful to use and I think it would greatly complicate the construction 
of the backend. I have used Smarty in 2 applications a couple of years 
ago and my conclusion was that I don't want to use Smarty anymore :-)

Go, Smarty fans, shoot me down ;-)

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch