We've done a bit of work integrating Smarty in a Symfony project where we want to be able to run templates written by users that we don't trust with full access to everything PHP can do.
In that situation, you need Smarty, or something like it. Outside of that situation there's not much need. Also, Smarty has a limitation that caused us a lot of grief. Template authors can pass arguments to functions provided by Smarty, or provided by you as an extension of Smarty. But those arguments can only be simple strings. There's no support for arrays or data structures of any kind, which quickly results in manual explode() calls all over the place, etc. One can work around that by kludging JSON or YAML in as a parser for arguments passed to Smarty functions, but it's a bit of a pain to set this up. On Sep 28, 11:57 am, kayoone <arne.wied...@gmail.com> wrote: > not too much difference since both compile to php files. > Smarty has its own syntax though which you have to learn and which has > limits, while the symfonys template component uses standard php which > can do anything you want it todo without writing workarounds in > smarty... > > also one could argue that PHP already is a template engine, thats why > symfonys approch uses normal php for templates and just seperates the > view from the logic, smarty on the other hand is a completly new layer > on top of php which is unnecessary. > > On 28 Sep., 17:33, hutchic <co...@hutchic.com> wrote: > > > > > As a long term symfony user I personally want to use symfony > > templating component for a new system. > > > Problem is I need to convince management. What are the advantages of > > symfony over smarty (phptal etc etc) from a management point of view? > > > Thanks for your input / assistance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
