Various issues with automatic adding of $-sign to variable names.

[lehni]

I am running into many problems with the automatic variable name substitution, and start to believe it's not a good idea to do this. For example, this code is causing issues:

open = pages->findOpen()
items = open ? open->children()->visible() : false

This gets wrongly translated to:

$__=$pages->findOpen();
$open  = $__
$__=$open ? open->children()->visible() : false;
$items  = $__
 ?>

As you can see, in the second statement, the second occurrence of open does not get replaced.

I have therefore created my own version of jade.php that removes this variable translation, and explicitly use the $-sign in the templates: https://github.com/lehni/jade.php

Don't you think this would make more sense for a PHP based Jade? I am wondering what the official take is on these kind of problems?

[lehni]

Thinking more about this, I get a feeling you are making a mistake with the trial to automatically translate JavaScript syntax in Jade templates to PHP on the fly. Without a real JavaScript AST Parser this will never work 100% correctly. Also, to me it feels more aligned with the idea of Jade for PHP that it would actually support PHP Syntax inside the Templates, and this aim should be much easier to achieve.