Ya, you can use php as a template engine, but smarty does many things.* Has its own varible scope. * Has magic functions for html options, checkboxes, radio buttons * Makes a true mvc envrioment.Granted you can create all these features on your own, but why rebuild the wheel, smarty is easy to learn, well documentated, well maintained, and with its caching ability is almost as fast as running without it.
No one ever suggested that each developer reinvent the wheel each time they build a site. No one is arguing the benefit of Smarty's features either. The issue is the alternate syntax and the extra, wasteful layer running on top of your site/server. Smarty's concept and ability is great, but why isn't it written in and using PHP?
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