topic PHP usability over Freemarker in Alfresco Archive

PHP usability over Freemarker

simon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:00:15 GMT

Alfresco users,We are now using Freemarker templates on top of the Alfresco repository to show a custom website to our customers with Alfresco as the backend system.Now… I'm not statisfied with this as Freemarker is too limited, it's a templating language, not a programming language and I'm looking

Re: PHP usability over Freemarker

kevinr — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:02:58 GMT

There is some good news coming your way In Alfresco 2.1 we have extended both the TemplateService and ScriptService to support additional processing languages as well as FreeMarker/JavaScript. PHP is the first additional language that will be supported - and you will be able to use PHP as either a Template language for building pages or a script processing language for rules etc. We are using a PHP engine that runs in the JavaVM on the server. It is now also possible to add additional language processor beans via config - so in theory Ruby, Python or other languages can be added to those services in the future.

Hope this is useful,

Kevin

Re: PHP usability over Freemarker

simon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:50:41 GMT

Thanks Kevin, this is indeed good news. This is defenitly the right way to go. Freemaker is nice, it's even powerfull enought to build some basic layouts but it isn't a programming language. Will wait for the 2.1.