Re: smarty

* Chris de Vidal <Chris@deVidal.tv> [2004-04-14 10:30:53 -0400]: <snip> > So there are alternatives to what Smarty offers, but I also said "I just > see them [template engines] as another tool." It's a tool; use it where I can't agree here. Template engines (in the sense we're talking here - for separating presentation/layout from application logic in web-like application environments) should be much more than just a tool, they're better should be considered as a fundamental component in the whole environment, as well as the application server, the frontend webserver (httpd), database/storage or client. The W3C tries to establish its own template engine - XSLT - (probably the most powerful) in the web. Of course its a little bit too complicated and overdozed for many small applications and quite hard to learn for non-programmers. So there're other, more simple, template engines out there, i.e. patTemplate/pTemplate. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT services phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: contact@metux.de cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- DSL-Zugang ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------