Re: Re: HTML_Template_Flexy or Smarty

no error handling ???? what i am asking, can it to standard template blocks aswell, like you have a main template and can add template blocks from a seperate template ? to keep it fasttemplate freiendly , and also can it be html programmer or designer friendly still say with simple vars like {myvar} instead of tedious logic that only a developer can understand ? On 16/12/2004, at 12:55 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

* Electroteque <daniel@electroteque.org>:

hi there I am trying to choose between the two, which one is efficient, but is also html programmer friendly and can still do template block style templating like fasttemplate or phemplate. I am trying to move people who have been using fasttemplate to a more efficient system, although these two systems have logic inside the templating.

You're verging on a religious war here... My predictions: 1) 25% respond in favor of HTML_Template_Flexy 2) 25% respond in favor of Smarty 3) 25% respond in favor of different templating solutions altogether 4) 25% respond asking why you need a templating system at all when you have PHP As for my own leanings -- we use Smarty where I work, and I like its flexibility and the ease with which I can integrate it with regular HTML (I particularly like that it doesn't use angle brackets as its delimiters -- makes it easy to spot Smarty directives in the template). My one complaint about it: no error handling. I wish it had error handling ala PEAR -- occasionally I get errors in Smarty that end up being hard to debug due to the complexity of the templates and/or number of templates we're using to generate a page. --

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