Hello there, A lot have been discussed, but anyway it is still difficult to decide. A project is to be developed, and more persons will have to work at it. Those persons will have some experience in ZF and probably also in Smarty. The problem is: what are the advantages and disadvantages of using ZF Template Engine vs. Smarty. How much of you use Smarty? Why do you prefer Smart/Zend_View? I see as advatages for Zend_View: 1. Some packages from ZF use Zend_View (Zend Layout, Zend Form, other examples?), so if we would use Smarty and use those packages (which we'll do), we will need to extend the abstract classes. Also it is possible that new comming features will use Zend_View. 2. Easier to learn than Smarty (right?), as it is clean PHP. As an advantage for Smarty: 1. It is more popular than Zend_View (right?) . 2. It has those built-in common-used functions (ex. excaping functions). 3. One can say it is easier/more pleasant to develop in Smarty (it is for a long time a stand-alone V(iew) component (from MVC) ) What would you decide if you were in my place? Thank you very much in advance.
