[eluser]BenneX[/eluser]
[quote author="Phil Sturgeon" date="1245113358"]Might be going a little far.
I think I can get away with just modifying the parse_single() function to allow syntax such as {helpername:helperfunction|"arg1":"arg2":"arg3"}. What do you guys think?[/quote]
Hmm. Sounds very well, but I think it doesn't make very much sense. It won't optimate the work of an theme-designer. The main term of a template-system is to give the theme-designer as few as possible placeholders to allow a great flexability. It should be easy to see what the placeholder will print out to make it easy to pose the dynamic output whereever you want. A call of a function within the views means an untransparent output, because you don't know the format of the returned output. To make it absolutely clear, an easy Example:
Code:
<!-- Here it's easy to handle -->
<div id="content">
<h2>{CONTENT_HEADLINE}</h2>
<p>{CONTENT_INTRO_TEXT}</p>
<!-- And here it's impossible to handle -->
<? $this->content->createTable('Headline', $this->data->tableXY, 'cellpadding="0" id="tableXY"'); ?>
<!-- Better is to allow this -->
<h3>{TABLE_XY_HEADLINE}</h3><table {TABLE_XY_PARAMS}>
<!-- TABLE_XY_ROW begin -->
<tr>
<!-- TABLE_XY_COL begin -->
<td>{TABLE_XY_VALUE}</td>
<!-- TABLE_XY_COL end -->
</tr>
<!-- TABLE_XY_ROW end -->
</table>
</div>
Okay, a table is not the best example, but you'll see you have full control of the markup. Know it's very easy to add a specific class for advanced styling. You only need to add them in the template-file and see clearly where to do it. A function call is just in one case transparent... when it loads another viewfile but a placeholder is a better solution too.
I love the template-system of phpBB2 very much. Very useful and not overblewed Maybe it can be migrated to ci? What you guys think about?
Maybe it can be migrated to ci? What you guys think about?