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I use TT2 (Template Toolkit) for creating dynamic web sites from SQL databases very quickly and easily. I like TT2 because I can retrieve a SELECT FROM...WHERE from the content database and then loop through the data, use a column as a flag to tell me how to process the data, and then output it to the HTML.

<!-- start of sidebar  -->

[% FOREACH sdbar = sidebar %]

 [% SWITCH sdbar.htag %]
 [% CASE "CC" %]
 [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "CH" %]
 [% sdbar.htext %]
 [% CASE "/DIV" %]
 </div>
 [% CASE "DC" %]
 <div class ="[% sdbar.htext %]">
 [% CASE "DI" %]
  <div id ="[% sdbar.htext %]">
 [% CASE "P" %]
 <p>
 [% CASE "/P" %]
 </p>
 [% CASE "DIT" %]
 <div id="mkdoc-children" title='Sidebar menu for "[% g_company %]".'>
 [% CASE "LL" %]
 
   <li xml:lang="[% g_lang %]" lang="[% g_lang %]" class="lang-[% g_la
+ng %]">
   <a title="[% sdbar.ctext %]"
   href="[% g_sitename %]/[% sdbar.htext %]" hreflang="[% g_lang %]">[
+% sdbar.dtext %]</a>
   </li>
 [% CASE "H1" %]
 <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.htext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
  [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "H2" %]
    <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.htext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
    [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "UL" %]
 <ul>
 [% CASE "/UL" %]
 </ul>
 [% CASE "LI" %]
   <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.ctext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
 [% CASE "@C" %]
   <!--
 [% CASE %]
   An unexpected error has occured.<BR><B>[% sdbar.htag %]</B><BR>
 [% END %]
[% END %] 
 
<!-- end of sidebar  -->
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The power of the template language makes for MVC like another poster mentioned, the seperation of content, data, and templates.

Richard

There are three types of people in this world, those that can count and those that cannot. Anon

In reply to Re: templates vs here docs by richardX
in thread templates vs here docs by grashoper

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