Re: Template system in PHP

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:22 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > Ryan A wrote: > > Add my vote too for Smarty.... > > > > HTH, > > -R > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > I like smarty and it's very powerful, however what you find is that it's > just a less capable replacement for PHP. If I want conditional > statements to display HTML and/or loop through arrays, why would I want > to do it in smarty tags? Instead of moving display away from logic, it > just replaces the logic with a different language. When I use templates > I pretty much want variable substitution. My next project I'll probably > use HTML files with little bits of PHP echos etc... sprinkled throughout. I prefer content formatting encapsulation as provided by custom tags. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'