[UPHPU] Template engines

[Walt Haas]

So Velda, what do you prefer to use as the bridge to left-brained guys
like myself?  Does a Smarty template work well for you as a bridge?
Is there anything else you prefer?

-- Walt

Velda Christensen <velda at novapages.com> wrote:

> cole at colejoplin.com wrote:
> > Where it gets REALLY sticky is when you start throwing in databases 
> > and CSS.  Because you're asking someone to switch from right brain 
> > dominance to left brain dominance.
> 
> Not really though, I consider CSS just another tool in my art box.  
> Designers get used to using programs like photoshop, and in a sense, CSS 
> is no different, nor is the smarty syntax once it's set up.  Databases I 
> would say bridge the gap between left and right brained processes.  Only 
> programming itself starts to get confusing, because there's alot that 
> has to happen that I can't see.
> 
> If you were to compare how some extremley left-brained programmers deal 
> with extremely right-brained people such as myself, to how the left and 
> right hemispheres of the brain function or misfire in some cases, the 
> political and procedural "seizures" we experience working together in 
> some cases may justify a severance of the corpus collosum. Limited, 
> seperated function to prevent dysfunction.  In web development, smarty 
> templates do exactly that.
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