[Phpmyadmin-devel] Templates

[Arnór]

Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 15:59:55 +0200
> Sebastian Mendel <lists at sebastianmendel.de> wrote:
>   
>> are there any reasons against introducing Smarty as template engine with
>> phpMyAdmin? And of course ship it with phpMyAdmin?
>>     
I doesn't get my vote, I don't think it's a good idea. Main reasons:

1. The benefits are very small except for a very small group of people.
I actually don't see a single reason why this would be implemented,
things like color adjustments, switching logos and the like are already
possible and pretty easy.
2. The development of additional features would take a longer time + the
added complexity when debugging.
3. The switch to smarty templates would take forever (duke nukem forever
kind of forever)
4. Smarty, if not used right, causes a lot of overhead, even when the
templates get cached. Expect to see at least 0.1-0.2 seconds added to
the current load time.


> I don't see any reason except that it needs quite a lot of time to
> switch everything to templates. Maybe it would be even better to
> start new project :-).
>
>   
>> the only 'problem' i see is that Smarty needs a writable directory to
>> store its compiled files - i don't know if it is possible to
>> 'precompile' this files as normally the templates will not be changed by
>> the user
>>     
>
> Having need for writable directory is not good, I'd prefer if we could
> avoid it.
>
>