Re: Re: smarty

Justin French said: > You must remember, Smarty is just a layer over PHP. All the functions > that you've listed exist in pure PHP code somewhere. It would > relatively easy to code equivalent templates in PHP. > > Taking some random examples from your list: <examples snipped> I believe Smarty users would say "Yeah but the Smarty functions are already written," which is when I'd use Smarty. There are countless thousands of PHP libraries/classes that can also be added to save writing functions from scratch. My point is that the templating feature of Smarty is largely (but not completely) redundant. /dev/idal