NYCPHP Meetup

[Jon Baer]

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I read a document @ Sun the other day explaining that you need to be a
programmer to really use PHP and the claim was w/ JSTL and JSP its
more component based .. so I was thinking how difficult it would be to
make a php tag function the same way ... an example:

<php:include file="mytaglib.php"/>*

<html>
<body>

<php:declare name="test" value="one,two,three" type="array"/>

<php:foreach>
<param name="input" value="test"/>
<oparam value="output">
Value: <valueof param="element.value"></valueof>
</oparam>
</php:foreach>

</body>
</html>

Well, maybe bad example, but basic idea ... (this is actually from an
ongoing peer conversation about java vs. php) ... but I think goes
back to a question I asked a long time ago in regards to <script
language="php" src="myfile.php"></script> not working (in PHP5 either).

The idea of tags kills me, however calling a single function in an
include would be nice - cleaner version of: <?php
include("myfile.php"); myfunction(); ?>

Another example:
<php:valueof name="param:id"></php:valueof> == <?php
echo($_GET['id']); ?> == <?= $_GET['id'] ?>

These example are a bite off ATG Dynamo JHTML/droplet stuff but what
Im really after is the including files w/ params stuff from a tag
based structure.  Im sure this either a) exists in some form somewhere
b) can be done or c) no worth it.  Any thoughts?

* - Disclaimer: Please don't try this and email me that it doesn't
work.  I know it doesn't.  It's a POC.

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