Re: Template system in PHP

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Ryan A wrote:

Add my vote too for Smarty.... HTH, -R

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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. -Shawn

re: If I want conditional statements to display HTML and/or loop through arrays, why would I want to do it in smarty tags? Things are very different when there are a team of varyingly skilled people on the job, do you really want a junior designer going in and changing bits of a php application, when you could limit the damage to a smarty template? further; the font end smarty language is definately needed; concider {if $articles} {*loop through articles and show in table *} {else} {* show no articles message *} {/if} in my opinion, being able to dump that kind of ultra simple logic onto the designers makes: 1: my life much easier 2: my php files much neater 3: my code my "own domain" without worrying about random comments and breakages from designers 4: the designers happier as they have more freedom and power to control the display, without having to worry final note: personally I output every script to a suitably named .tpl file with a single line {debug} - job done