If you were to choose something other than Twig, Mustache 
(http://mustache.github.com/) is becoming a very popular cross-language 
templating language.
I know that Twig, being a product of Sensio gets preference but having 
something more widely used like Mustache might reduce the learning curve a bit.

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Keri Henare
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On 28/09/2010, at 7:44 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:

> On 09/27/2010 06:30 AM, naholyr wrote:
>> As PHPView remains a embedded engine accessible via a simple option,
>> the "template versus plain PHP" is meaningless.
>> 
>> The real question in my opinion is : "why Twig ?"
>> OK, we know why, it's because Symfony's team (or Fabien only ?) wrote
>> it and wants to use it. OK, that's a point.
>> 
>> But why don't you rely on a already-made engine ? Like Smarty,
>> TinyButStrong, PHPLib, or any other aged template engine that has
>> proven its reliability, power, extensibility, or whatever is the main
>> criteria to decide which engine to include.
>> Twig is nice and everything, but it will never be as powerful as
>> Smarty (including community-plugins), neither will it be wysiwyg-
>> compatible as TBS, or lightweight as PHPLib+cache.
>> 
>> The use of a template engine is fully positive in my opinion, but it's
>> just like the Mailer engine, it should be a third-party library.
>> 
> 
> I had to work on a project that uses smarty, I absolutely detest it. Its the 
> worst invention and I don't see the point. I honestly don't get how it is any 
> cleaner/easier to understand to a non-dev, nor how it helps in anyway. The 
> only thing I can think is in escaping output. Are there other benefits other 
> than those two? I'd really like to know why people find stuff like smarty 
> useful.
> 
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