Re:Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
by mamadrood on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:23PM
(#13278557)
I've been using PHP for most of my life, and used various template engine and it always end up with one question : what is the real purpose of a template engine in PHP instead of just using PHP ? When I see the examples in twig homepage it just looks like they tried to make PHP examples verbose for the sake of it.
I don't really mind them, but I find it extremely boring to have to register in the template engine every function that you will end up using somewhere else in your code and eventually have a language with less feature than plain old PHP and an other layer of cache.
So which use cases make you need Twig, for instance ?
Re:Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
by CiPHPerCoder on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:31PM
(#13278611)
If you have a designer who's worked with templating engines in other languages (e.g. Django/Python projects), they already know what they're doing.
It also makes it easier to separate your presentation logic from your business logic.
For example: https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/B...
This uses macros and other fun things. Doing that in PHP would get messy.
https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/src/Cabin/B...
Re:Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
by mamadrood on Friday December 30, 2016 @03:29AM
(#13283263)
Okay, I've never worked with a designer that would touch code, so there is that. Macros seem a bit redundant with partial views in my opinion, except they take fixed parameters, but this is a interesting concept.
Re:Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
by TheOneTrueKyle on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:27PM
(#13278588)
Working with designers who just want to make a few changes. All that PHP can be intimidating, but basic templating is doable.
Re:Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
by TheOneTrueKyle on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:51AM
(#13278329)
+1 for twig when using PHP. Also, if working in Wordpress, the combination of ACF and Timber (twig for Wordpress) will get rid of a lot of frustrations.
- https://github.com/mholt/caddy
Caddy is an HTTP/2 webserver written in Go that integrates with ACME and serves websites of TLS by default. It powers https://paragonie.com and manages our HTTPS certificates automatically.
- https://github.com/twigphp/Twig
Twig is one of the sane templating languages for PHP projects that I use extensively.
- https://github.com/composer/composer
Composer revolutionized PHP development.
A lot of the "PHP sucks" arguments focus on things that haven't been true about the language since 5.4 (or earlier), but one thing that truly did suck was dependency management (before composer came around).
Dependency management also sucks in other languages (and still sucks in those). I suspect that's why few used that as a criticism of PHP.
- https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
Libsodium: modern cryptography that you can likely find bindings for in your favorite programming language.