Re: Contribution for PECL

Yeah, these Template wars are nearly as good as the why use coding standards one :)... how about maxxtemplate ? -- seems reasonable appropriate.. maxxtemplate_* Regards Alan Maxx wrote:

That just shows you don't know smarty :-) Smarty compiles template code directly into native PHP code which is must

faster than a

C extension that does a search and replace[1], and is (smarty) the best

way to do a templating

language in PHP.

a) Smarty just can not be much faster than a well-written C extension. As I said already, tests showed php-templates faster than pure PHP (even without Smarty). b) There is no any kind of search-and-replace operation in php-templates. We do not replace the text in a template and the search algorythm used in the code is really fast. The main idea is that engine _builds_ a template instead of changing its parts. This approach increases the speed _dramatically_. You may see that all in the source.

[1] A C extension constantly reparses the template, Smarty parses and

compiles it once, mix

Smarty with a PHP Cache (like ionCube Accellerator or Zend Performance

Suite) and it'll beat

the C extension every time...

There's a "shared memory cache" task in my TODO list. It will be implemented in one of future versions and the engine will stop doing any kind of text-search operations. The developing process has not been stoped yet.

Did you read Monte's "why use smarty" page on smarty.php.net ? It explains quite well why trying to have "no logic in the template" is useless... You NEED logic in your template. If it's not in the template, it's in the code, and if the design depends on this code, then you don't achieve the layout separation you were using templates for. Final dot as far as i'm concerned...

Just a citation from the mentioned article: "We'll start by saying that [XXX] doesn't claim to be the answer to every templating problem. It isn't, nor is any other template engine. There is always going to be more than one way to solve a problem. It is up to you as the application designer to identify your needs and use a solution that works best." I replaced "Smarty" with "[XXX]" intentionally just for you could apply the text to any template solution. =) P.S. Let's stop the holy war and discuss pros and cons of the topic.

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