Jared Stevens wrote:
Hey all -
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I want to freshen the
debate. I've used Smarty for a while, but I've often wondered if there
is anything better out there in the world of PHP. I've briefly used a
library called Phastplate, but it seems like development isn't going
anymore on that. I can't find the homepage for it on the web either.
The main thing I like about Smarty is its ability to do formating and
stuff on the fly, as well as the way it can handle arrays. Once I got
the scripting language down, it was really convenient. I also like how
you can use QuickForm together with Smarty and format forms and stuff.
I like both Smarty and plain PHP. When working with a team of
less-experienced coders, Smarty is often much better because it forces
MVC. I hate having to teach less-experienced coders that it is bad
practice to be doing data processing and defining functions in a php
template file.
I also like the namespacing of Smarty; that is anything inside the
template won't conflict with other global php variables. I liked it so
much, in fact, that I wrote a QuickTemplater class that uses extract()
to do the same thing for plain php templates. (see
http://pastie.caboo.se/58630).
-- Ken Snyder
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