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Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating

Posted by timothy on from the shirinking-gap dept.

comforteagle writes "One of the greatest hurdles for people wishing to 'switch' to FOSS and Linux is finding a good replacement tool for what they are accustomed to using. In Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating Mark Stosberg investigates what open source solutions are available to replace Dreamweaver's powerful templating capabilities." Update: 01/09 by J : Hey, just for the record, Template Toolkit, which provides the solution Mr. Stosberg settles on, also powers much of Slashdot.

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  1. Re:OMFG by markjugg · · Score: 4, Informative
    As the author, you missed a key point in the article. It's not about alternatives to Dreamweaver, it's an alternative to the way Dreamweaver implements templating.

    I would expect people to still use a visual editor, such as NVU for visual work.

    tt2site, which is based on tt2ttree, is currently under-documented, but looks like it could shape up to be a fairly easy to use templating solution, requiring minimal use of the command line. (Until someone writes some GUI hooks to run it from Quanta).

  2. SMARTY - God's gift to PHP programmers. by TheLittleJetson · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've done a few projects using Smarty. It's pretty nifty, keeps all your markup separate from your code... It has some simple flow control stuff in it that makes the code nice and clean too.

    Recently, I've been using this to serve up XUL and it works remarkably well.