PHP MVC frameworks gained popularity fairly recently, it's irrelevant when this pattern was "invented". Also developers and designers got better in separating content from presentation. It didn't happen overnight, those technologies and tools matured gradually, so did people skills. Nowadays web applications are build quite differently than few years ago.
Karol Jani Hartikainen wrote: > > I'm having a hard time seeing how a template engine was made obsolete > by a pattern that existed even before it, or by a stylesheet language.. > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:56:42 +0300, Karol Grecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> Smarty was made obsolete by MVC and proper use of CSS. You can cache >> pages >> using Zend_Cache. There no point using Smarty anymore. Some people have >> legacy projects and still need to use it but I'd say it has no future in >> modern web development. >> >> Karol >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Smarty--tp18537490p18538834.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
