put it away. please.

I've seen a lot of home-rolled templating systems, and none of them come even close to The Template Toolkit, most of them were quite frankly awful and became a maintainence nightmare by the time I'd arrived to work on them - sounds like you've created just such a monster to make life miserable for whoever comes into your business.

A better plan would be to see how much work it would be to take the unique elements or bespoke bits of your templating system and provide them as a plugin for TT so that you don't have a nightmare legacy for the next 5 to 10 years that holds back your company and causes people to quit.

In case it hasn't become clear yet, I've left jobs because people thought they could build a better PHP, ASP, TT and failed. In every case they struggled to maintain, document and extend their systems and fell behind as staff struggled to learn it and left or became unproductive as they tried to make it handle new requirements.

In reply to Re: Yet Another Templating System by Anonymous Monk
in thread Yet Another Templating System by ruzam

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