Templates for Big Projects, good idea???

[cesarsirv]

Hi,
I have a quite complex project in PHP + MySQL, but all my scripts have HTML + PHP embedded. I am thinking on adapting it to templates, but since the project is already done, and have lots of functions in multiple files, am having problems for the adaption.

Is it a good idea to adapt such a kind of project (big,complex,multiple files and pages and already finished) to templates, and if so, which template would I need (I use multiple dynamic selects, tables, recursive functions, etc., etc...).

Thanks

Cesar

[sarahk]

There's big and then there's big. I have a complex app at http://www.pcpropertymanager.com/info and http://www.pcpropertymanager.com/esc/info

Same page different look. I've had to change product names, url's behind the buttons. By using phplib I've been able to separate the logic from the presentation and it has helped immensely. I have very few php files and they are quite short. The templates handle the rest.

It's tempting not to re-engineer but you have to consider
speed (templates may be slower)
maintenance

We had to make some major changes lately and because of the architecture it went sooo smoothly.