John Campbell-6 wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2008 10:08 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Though I haven't heard much discussion, it seems like whenever I hear >> about >> templating, it's using Smarty. Does anyone have any thoughts on >> Smarty/PHPTAL/other engines that may be out there? > > Templating is built into php, unfortunately many people don't figure out > how to > use it correctly. Below is a class that provide smarty like > templating in less than 25 lines of code: >
I've been using a similar, light-weight template class for over 3 years now. Personally, I can find a compelling reason to use anything else. To me, the big advantages of a technique like this are: * small code-base * familiar code (no weird markup language to learn) * easy to implement caching * speed Here are some links to more about this point of view: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ http://www.phppatterns.com/docs/design/templates_and_template_engines http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=273 http://phpsavant.com/yawiki/ (also Paul Jones) -- Dell -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Templating-engines-tp14921320p14943873.html Sent from the NYPHP-Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
