Re: Re: smarty

Enrico Weigelt said: > I really don't like smarty. The idea is simply not right. It's a good idea; in fact, PHP was originally supposed to be a templating engine. You can easily separate business and presentation logic in either PHP or Smarty. > + does not separate (imperative) code from layout. it still models > process logic To a limited extent. > + such non-trivial imperative code is not suited for non-programmer's > (perhaps graphical) editing tools. My goal is to allow my Front Page (yuck, don't have a choice) developer to mock up an entire site and then I'll plug in PHP or Smarty template code. Works well. Or I can supply an extremely sparse HTML file with PHP/Smarty template code in it and she can mock it up. > + the layouter has still so learn (a subset of) php and so also has > to be a programmer See above... > + offers no clear borderline between layout definitions and application > code. > you simply can't give a customer of your application service access to > without imposing really serious security problems. A valid concern. > + bound to the php-interpreter and cannot be used w/ other languages. > + content rendering process cannot be separated from the application > server. Another valid concern. Hey PHP/Smarty templates aren't for everyone. No one said they were. But for my next project I believe I'll be using native PHP as a template engine. /dev/idal