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.
Kind regards, Keri Henare --------------------------------------------------- Chief Technical Officer Pixel Fusion [e] [email protected] [w] pixelfusion.co.nz [m] (+64) 021 874 552 [p] (+64) 09 550 3084 Zend Certified Engineer - http://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages#show-ClientCandidateID=ZEND013450 PLEASE NOTE: I check my email 3 times per day and will respond at these intervals. For anything urgent please ring me. --------------------------------------------------- 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. > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
