Because I want to get this cranked out as soon as I can, I’m afraid that I’ll have to revert, regress, defect, apostatize back to PHP for the implementation. I know of a framework that I can use (CodeIgniter) that will support templating. I already know how to make it so that I can create forms and post, and that sort of thing. I’m just kinda sick of messing with Python and trying to get it to jump through hoops right now. I know that PHP will be able to do the current task just as well. Python, Django, I’ll be back for you… later.
I wouldn’t look at switching to PHP as a regression. At any rate, if you don’t want to muck around with a framework, I’d recommend Smarty as a templating system (smarty.php.net). It’s real simple and effective at what we’re doing. I’ve even been using it to generate our XML messages. Also I just posted a blog on how to update to PHP 5.2.4 on FC4, which will enable you to use some of the PHP features not included in 5.0.4 (which is the default PHP installed on the FC4 images we’re using). You can see it on Planet or go here: http://cs462labjournal.blogspot.com/2007/11/updating-php-on-fedora-core-4.html
By: johndusbabek on November 2, 2007
at 5:32 pm