The point wasn't to compare Smarty and Django Templates, it was just to show that if you do something different from the "default", no matter what language and platform you are developing for, there is always going to be extra work involved.
And for the record, Smarty has been around several years longer than Django. On Sep 1, 3:23 am, LH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little bit confused about the discussion php vs django template > at all. > > The most of the posters here should take a look at the no. 1 php > template engine: Smartyhttp://www.smarty.net/ > > Take the documentation of the template syntax, you will see that > Smarty and Django Template are very similar, so similar that I wrote > my first (not so simple) django template without even look at the docs > of django. > > I'm not sure which system comes first [but I heared that it was smarty > one time], django templates or smarty, but who ever was second knows > the other one while planning its own solution. > So a lot of php and python developers have a nearly identical handling > of templates in there projects. > > On Aug 31, 12:36 am, Michael Schreifels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I wanted to work with PHP and didn't like the fact that it allowed > > my designers to access PHP, I could certainly choose to use a template > > language. But of course, it is going to involve overcoming a barrier > > to implementation. Django templates works great for most people. For > > those who it doesn't work for, they should be prepared to have to do > > some extra work. Besides, for beginner's needs, what exactly is it > > that Django templates doesn't work for? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
