RE: [PHP] smarty vs. patTemplate vs. includes - newbie q

> I'm designing a site with about 100 different pages. I'm debating whether > to > use a template mechanism such as smarty or patTemplate vs just creating > pages and including the body templates based on the url parameters. I > realize you get a layer of abstraction using the template mechanisms, but > with the scheme that I have in mind the users will only be editing the > pages > that are marked body_foo.php. These body pages would be basically pure > html, > so they can't really screw anything up in the php logic. They would be > called off an index.php that has a bunch of includes, header.php, > body.php, > footer.php etc, this page would be off limits to the user for editing. > > >From what I understand, both smarty and patTemplate are popular and both > have supporters and detractors, is one template significantly faster or > more > stable than the other? Smarty is considerably faster. I've benchmarked the two next to each other with some other templating systems. > If I just use includes, am I gonna run into problems, other than the loss > of > elegance and some abstraction that a template system might offer. My site > will have approx 100 pages, with a peak of 600,000 hits per day. No, includes will work just fine. No one says you have to use templates. They provide some overhead, but are very useful in a multi-user development environment. ---John Holmes...