Re: smarty vs. patTemplate vs. inclu

I have never used patTemplate but from my experience Smarty is both fast and robust (I now would not consider building a site without it) Even given your scenario I would recommend that you at least consider using a templating engine. Smarty is very quick and easy to set up so just have a play! David "David Caplan" <dcaplan@fusebox.com> wrote in message news:JMEFLFOGAPDJGGGEFHMHEEJFDOAA.dcaplan@fusebox.com... > Hi, > > 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? > > 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. > > thanks for your help, > > Dave >