Hi,
Smarty is trully fantastic - relatively easy to learn and use and is very
powerful.
I used to use the phplib template engine which was also impressive but
Smarty is much more sophisticated.
Some great things about Smarty:-
- site pages can be cached (can save masses of time if the server is having
to re-create the same database backed pages)
- a well written, extensive and thorough manual (a must if you are to use
Smarty to its max)
- the Smarty 'presentation' code resides with the html and is consequently
separated from the php code . This may be said by some to be a bad thing as
the point of the such template engines is to separate the html from
programming code; however I have found that in the case of phplib templates
(and no doubt many other template engines) html was, by necessity, finding
its way into the programming code and also the code to manage the generate
the templates could become quite bulky. Smarty is practically and
conceptually more elegant in that it separates 'all presentation related
code' (html and smarty constructs) and logic (ie. your php), what's more,
the actual lines of code that I have to write is reduced as a result.
Hope that this convinces you to give Smarty a go,
David Eisenhart
http://smarty.php.net seems polular
J
on 04/12/02 12:40 AM, Alexander A. Savenkov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi PHP.
Suggest me which template engine is more popular?
I try select engine for me but I alredy become involved in that
number different version
Alexander A. Savenkov
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Alexander A. Savenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Hi Justin.
JF http://smarty.php.net seems polular
It seems to me too
but i thick may be I can miss smthng important
Alexander A. Savenkov
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