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Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers (Comment #1)

Paul M. Jones — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:19:38 -0500

At or about 36:50, the hosts get their story horribly wrong.

I did not write a book about Smarty, Hasin Hayder did. My blog post was about *his* emigration from Smarty-land; the "this guy" link at the top of that post links to Hayder's blog post.

Not only have I *not* been a Smarty user for some years now, I developed Savant (three versions), Zend_View, and Solar_View as responses *against* the Smarty way. To call me a Smarty user is the furthest thing from the truth.

And to answer your speculative comments: no, Solar does not use Smarty.

Source links:

http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=273

http://phpsavant.com

http://solarphp.com

Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers (Comment #2)

Elizabeth naramore — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:54:37 -0500

Paul - We were just making sure you were paying attention :)

Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers (Comment #3)

Adam Lumsden — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:15:29 -0500

As a follow-up, the Joomla cart plug-in VirtueMart is free like I suspected. http://virtuemart.net/

I also came across another interesting simplistic solution called OpenCart. http://www.opencart.com/

Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers (Comment #4)

Loughlin McSweeney — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:58:11 -0500

Hi Mike,

Just wanted to say that Dave or Adam's point (can't remember now) about Firebug having export capabilities for CSS files is a very common request amongst my peers in the industry and I think it was a very valid point which you kind of brushed over saying that some CSS is created dynamically so why output it from the browser when developing the layouts.

In fairness, if a CSS file is written to dynamically it's going to be after the page layout containers are in place - it would be AMAZING if firebug wrote the CSS file changes to the css file locally or remotely as firebug is invaluable for the laborious process of converting the designers flat designs into a functional, standards-complient working design and this process usually takes place long before a CMS or other CSS-altering beast is in place.

Really liked this podcast by the way!