htdocs and gettext

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 23 January 2006 6:16 pm, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:45 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Umm, no. If anything, PHP becomes a little more important as although the
> > TRANSLATIONS are handled via PO, the CONTENT strings now need to be
> > wrapped in php functions.
>
> Oh, that's too bad.  I'd rather we were less coupled to PHP.

It's still useful, even though our content isn't as dynamic as a 
database-driven site. e.g. the News items would be a royal PITA to handle via 
SHTML or "baking" because the resulting index page would be a nightmare to 
edit.

<asbestos>
I like PHP as much as you or Derek may like Emacs/Scheme so we aren't going to 
see eye to eye on this one! Now if only Scheme was as easy as PHP . . . . 
</asbestos>
:-)

We do have dynamic or at least changeable pages and scripts, there is some 
automation and code reuse. It would be pointless to leave all that behind.

Right now, if someone commits a new News item, it would appear instantly. 
That's useful.

> I don't 
> see why it's necessary for our web site, which is pretty much entirely
> static.

and the reason it has to stay that way is ? ??? There are more dynamic things 
we can do with the site once this is all done.

However, PHP is already worth using, IMHO, if only because of the inherent 
code reusage.

CodeHelp has lots on PHP but there's only tiny database usage behind it (and 
that only as a demo). A site doesn't have to have a database to benefit from 
PHP - or to be termed "dynamic".

Maybe we could parse XML to make it anonymous (for bug reports), maybe we 
could do lots of other things - just because gnucash.org has *been* a little 
static until now doesn't mean it should stay that way.

-- 

Neil Williams
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