[UPHPU] Pastebin.org, Would Anybody like to help me create a pastebin?

[Jennifer Charrey]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> I consider your example breaking the separation of business and display 
> logic. The front-end should only have display logic; it shouldn't be 
> performing calculations. You have business logic in your example. The 
> backend should take care of that and only pass variables and arrays to 
> the front-end.
> 
> The front-end could (should) look like this:
> 
> <select name="day">
>     <? foreach ($days as $day) { ?>
>     <option value="<? $day ?>"><? $day ?></option>
>     <? } ?>
> </select>
> 
> <select name="month">
>     <? foreach ($months as $month) { ?>
>     <option value="<? $month ?>"><? $month ?></option>
>     <? } ?>
> </select>
> 
> <select name="year">
>     <? foreach ($years as $year) { ?>
>     <option value="<? $year ?>"><? $year ?></option>
>     <? } ?>
> </select>


I agree. I should have put in a better example. But I still think...

{html_select_date time="$begDate" prefix="begDate" start_year="2001" 
end_year="+1"}

... is more readable. Not only is the pure PHP snippet above ~15 lines 
longer, that doesn't even include the application logic. Nitpicky 
detail: Your snippet doesn't have any selected options, whereas the 
Smarty code does ($begDate). So there'd be even more PHP tags and vars 
in the mix, with conditionals.

But html_select_date is really just some of the icing on the cake. I'd 
still use it even if it only had control flow and modifiers.