I like this project and wonder why it is so disguised? I was looking for a few days after information about v8cgi but without significant results and have begun to write on a tutorial for server side javascript. After some problems with implementing MooTools someone recommended Raccoon.
I have unfortunately not got it to run because the required couchdb in the current version is not supported for windows. Anyway, I have the mootools.jx included in my code and it works. :) My question is if whether can CouchDB turn around the Raccoon framework?
Regards and sorry for my English,
Angel
For the Raccoon template class, all of the echoed statements are turned into strings using the native
toString()method. This is not called explicitly, but is called implicitly by the js engine because it's concatenating the contents of the template (which are turned into string literals) and the value of the statement. Like in the v8cgi template module, this could be written as<#: this.value || "" #>to avoid gettingundefinedin your template.Includes are not yet in the trunk, but this in one of the items that I've been adding in the past few days. Essentially, it'll work the same like the packaged template-class, but uses a key instead of
$template. It'll also parse variables. The syntax would be<#@ "/string/path/to/template.html" #>or<#@ varPathToTemplate #>. It'll be included in the 0.3dev release.Ah cool, I'll expend the class in my next tutorial part, if possible. Seemingly the tamplate class has some problems special chars. Although there is a workaround for break-lines i could not get the multi-line-code to proceed. Probably u know about this problems.
I have an idea, how would it be to run php-code through the template? It should call a php-process file, that handles the transmitted code. I could try, if the actual windows build had an process module. But maybe it's just an idea... :)
The only problem I know right now is single-quotes inside code blocks. Other characters should work. Multi-line code is also not allowed and it's a decision I've made because this is a templating engine. Code should be inside controllers, not views.
You could experiment in trying to run php code through the template, but we have no plans of adding such functionality within Raccoon. One of the things you have to understand about Raccoon is that aside from trying to be lean and simple, we're aiming for separation of processing and presentation--all processing should be done in controllers and we don't recommend any heavy processing in the templates. Which is why I wrote the simple templating engine in the first place.
You're free to write about the template engine for Raccoon. Just remember to put in credits and link directly to the repo. :)