What to do about templates?

OpenEMR Development
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markleeds wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2005:

There are pages here and there that are generated by templates.  I think I read that the plan was to stop using the templating system.

Does that mean that existing template generated pages should be converted to regular php pages as time permits or just no new ones?

I understand that using templates is supposed to be good for big commercial websites where you separate your html designers from your programmers.

If the templates will continue to exist, I will go study up on the smarty templating system so I can work with them.

It looks similar to template modules I have used in Perl.

Mark

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emilykillian wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2005:

My understanding was that we would use templates/forms, but not smarty. I’m not 100 percent sure on that, though.

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sunsetsystems wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2005:

What we decided was to stop using Smarty for new development.  We’d like to see it removed from the old code also, but of course that will happen only as the developers find the time and inclination.

Yes, I think the appeal of Smarty is primarily for organizational and political reasons.  I.e. if you make people use a tool that doesn’t let them do “real” programming, then they are less likely to screw something up, and also less likely to develop their IT skills and move on to a better job elsewhere.

That’s my attempt at a Scott Adams* interpretation.

– Rod <rod at sunsetsystems dot com>

* Adams is the creator of Dilbert.

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tekknogenius wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2005:

Thanks for the footnote. At first reading I thought you were referring to Samuel Adams (the beer, I mean politician http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/adams_s.htm)