RE: [PHP] smarty

Chris de Vidal <mailto:chris@devidal.tv> on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:43 AM said: > I could have put a tag in the template like {bio} but that'd mean > maintaining HTML in the PHP code which I wanted to avoid (left the > "prettyness" to the Front Page developer). Instead, I put something > like this in the template: > {if $level > 2} > {bio} > {/if} i've never used smarty* but i think i understand how it works. so my question is this... would it not be better to place that logic in your php code instead of your template? my thinking is this: if {bio} contains anything, it will print to the page. if it doesn't contain anything, nothing will be printed. so there's no need to check the value of $level within the template since {bio} will simply contain something, or it will not. i'm purely looking to understand this "smarty" thing a little better. :) chris. * i did try it once or twice in the past, with little things but didn't quite grasp it.