RE: [PHP] Best Template Engine

I just created my own because none of the php ones out there offered as much flexibility as I needed. There are some pretty advanced classes out there (http://www.phpclasses.org) but not nearly what you would probably want out of your own. Your best bet would be to create your own template engine parser for your specific needs. You will find that in the end, you will be much more satisfied with the result. The main problem is, a lot of your concerns will not be addressed in someone elses template engine. So why waste the time trying to hack their program to make something for yours. You will see that in almost every large scale open source application developed that uses templates. They created their own because the end result is much more productive a scalable. -----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Schoenster [mailto:peter@schoenster.com] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:31 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Best Template Engine On 13 Sep 2002 at 11:26, Dennis Gearon wrote: > I need to make BLOG of my own, out of pieces. MOst of the BLOGS out > there are not modular in regards to their permission, authorization > system. Too bad, every piece of software should have as many modules > and public interfaces as it has functions, like unix does. That way, a > better piece of software can be used. > > Anyway, I need to know what everybody who is using a template engine > thinks of them, especially those that have tried more than one. -- Hi, In Perl I used HTML::Template (been sort of ported to PHP) and Template::Toolkit which I always use now. I'm new to PHP since this year. I was shocked by what people thought were template systems. Horrific imho. I used http://htmltmpl.sourceforge.net/php.html but then I found smarty http://smarty.php.net/ I use it with an XML feed from Amazon in these pages: http://www.readbrazil.com/books/amazon.php?mode=books I'm using it in some other current projects and it provides the loops within loops that are a necessity. I have not found better in the PHP world although people have mentioned others. I like that I always know where to go when I need to look at the API: smarty.php.net Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php