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I am thinking about using the templates but have heard that they are not as flexible as site_html.pl.
I don't understand how these rumors get started (blame Alex's comment lines in config files)!
I find templates
MUCH easier to use. There is nothing you can do in site_html.pl that you cannot also do using templates. At least, I have yet to find anything. And, as to them being less flexible, that is just not true. It makes things a lot more flexible in my opinion. Templates help keep the script code cleaner because all the HTML is in the template files instead of the script. When I was running Links v1.1, my site_html.pl was pusing 110K! Finding anything in it was a real pain and it was very difficult to maintain. My site_html_templates.pl is only around 26K with Links v2.0. Sure, there are more files to edit, but I think it is a much cleaner system and much easier to manage.
In my opinion,
use templates!!! 'nuff said.
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Bob Connors
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