From xtpl-announce at phpxtemplate.org  Thu Aug 16 21:53:36 2007
From: xtpl-announce at phpxtemplate.org (xtpl-announce@phpxtemplate.org)
Date: Thu Aug 16 21:54:05 2007
Subject: [xtpl-announce] New features & Forums
Message-ID: <46C4B950.6030802@phpxtemplate.org>

Hi All,

Quick update about PHP XTemplate activity in the last few months:

    * Some re-factoring of the website including new discussion forums
      (got tired of SourceForge on that score)
    * A major new feature *Tag Callback Functions* - available in the
      SubVersion source code tree (as from today!):
          o allows tags like $xtpl->assign('mytag', 'Test text');
                + {mytag|my_callback_method} or
                + {mytag|callbackfunction1|str_replace('text', 'code',
                  %s)#comments}
                + it's a very powerful feature that encourages some
                  'intelligence' in the templates without changing the
                  separation of code logic and display too much (as per
                  Smarty et al)
          o callbacks can be a (limited set of) PHP function(s), your
            own defined functions or methods within a sub-classed child
            of XTemplate.
          o If there's a '%s' in the callback string, the tag is passed
            in that position to the callback. You don't need to use that
            notation however as the tag is automatically passed as the
            only parameter to the callback function in if there's no %s.
          o PHP 5 version fully operational, PHP 4 version needs testing
            (as I don't really use it any more!) and reporting on in the
            forums (http://forum.phpxtemplate.org)
          o Some recent comments about this new feature:
                + Really great job anyway! I love it
                + Those callbacks look like the start of a superb
                  feature. I had wanted something like that for a long time
                + I just want to say.... thank-you thank-you thank-you
                  for these beautiful callbacks. I've just switched my
                  template wrapper class to use the latest from the
                  SVN... sweeeet lord...

    * Stable version 0.4.0 released (29/05/07) for both PHP 5 & 4


Anyway that's all for now.

$xtpl->assign('message', 'HAPPY TEMPLATING');

{message|strtolower|ucwords}

Regards,
Jeremy
-- 
PHP XTemplate
http://www.phpxtemplate.org/
http://forum.phpxtemplate.org/
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