Re: Re: Template style question

Torgny Bjers wrote:

Petr Smith wrote:

Smarty sucks. Mixing presentation and logic is never good idea. I know Smarty is very popular, but big popularity doesn't always mean quality. Back to original question: If you decided to reinvent the wheel, please don't reinvent square wheel without tire. Mixing presentation and logic is bad. You should have no sqls, loops, ifs or any other logic things in templates. Templates should be editable by any stupid guy, anyone who knows just css/html. No sql, no php, no other language. Back to original idea to parse table. Do not copy bad ideas from other templating engines. Again - reinvent a better wheel or use some from 1000s of existing libraries. Download some existing libraries, think about good and bad things, make it better, make it different! Otherwise we will end with 1000+1 stupid, same, useless templating libraries.

You don't need to mix presentation and logic with Smarty. If you create your custom tags with Smarty and use these instead of having the inline "Smarty PHP" code, you'll have separated them just fine. Then if the end user wants to use PHP inline, fine, either let them, or don't. Either way, Smarty is about the fastest and most versatile engine in the PEAR library, as far as I know. I'd rather use that, than build something custom from scratch. And, in combination with Tidy and Cache_Lite, you'll get a very fast and precise rendering engine... Just my $0.02.

I agree with Petr!! Smarty is very good and the designer has to learn a few smarty tags and Walla! you've got your templates working.