Re: smarty

Kelly Hallman said: > Apr 6 at 2:43pm, Chris de Vidal wrote: >> Given that scripts are compiled the first time they're ran, you'll >> never* notice the bloat and never lack performance; it's the same as >> real PHP code and can be optimized with a caching engine like Zend. > > Certainly. However, the Smarty compiler is about 2200 lines of code, and > the Smarty class itself (which does load every time) is about 2000. Both > figures rounded up, and both files contain heaps of comments. Ahh never thought about that. > Still, many people consider this bloat, if they're merely wanting to > search and replace a couple of values on an HTML template. Yep, I was given something simple on this mailing list for this task. Looked perfect -- at first -- but I recognized I was going to need more (if/then and loops) so I used Smarty instead. But here is a very simple template engine: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=107644142420608&w=2 >> Instead, I put something like this in the template: >> {if $level > 2}{bio}{/if} > > Again, take it a step further and you may just load up a $User object (of > your design) within your PHP code. Then in the template, you could use: > > {if $User->hasPermission('write')} ... {/if} > > When you start thinking like this, your PHP logic gets very slim and easy > to read and maintain. This is the goal and benefit of templating. Sweet! > It becomes especially powerful when working on a larger web app. You > needn't assign your values into the template from each PHP page. You can > make a boilerplate include and assign common variables as references: > <code snipped> > > So you can attach references right off the bat in an include, then every > time you use that include, you've already got things assigned and can > change them all you want before displaying, without additional assignment. > > Going even one step further (the beauty of Smarty: always another level), > just extend the Smarty object itself. Then, instead of making all your > templates includes other templates (such as a header or a footer), you can > make your overall page be a template, and the extended Smarty object can > be given extra functionality to control the page: > <code snipped> > > Now, is Smarty awesome, or what? :) I don't quite understand what you're saying because I'm feeling ill at the moment :-P so I'll have to try to comprehend it later. But thanks for the enthusiasm! /dev/idal