On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Garrison Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this usually starts a big war, but I was just curious about how > many people out there are using Smarty and to what extent you're using it? > If you're not using it, why did you decide to not use it? If you are, > why? Also, if you're using it, how big or small are the projects? Just > personal things or like giant things with tens of thousands of users.
Been using it extensively for the past 8 or so years. Only with recent projects (~2 years) we migrated away from Smarty on most projects. I still take care of some legacy code that uses it but whenever I had the pleasure to start from scratch, I did not use Smarty. The number one reason being that a MVC framework like ZendFramework or CodeIgniter takes /good/ care of seperating business logic and presentation layer already. No need to put another layer in between it. I like the helper code, etc.. It reminds me very much of modifiers and inserts. Projects where I had used Smarty included websites for the biggest soda brand in the world, Intranet projects for a company selling an energy drink, different CMS systems for news portals and so on. There's really no limit as of where I used it over the years. I don't like people bashing it, so I should add (and emphasize) that it always served me very well. Till
