RE: [SMARTY-DEV] smarty vs php includes

Your two guys seem to be afraid of something new and that's understandable. Your HTML guy should be excited to use the easier templating (unless he doesn't like to touch the code and is one of those GUI kids.) Is your programmer a linear guy or does he use OOP? If he is linear it makes sense that he doesn't want to learn, that's a big step. If he's already doing OOP then I don't know what to say. You might want to mention the speed increase because of Smarty's pre-processing compilation vs. the include, include, include overhead... -----Original Message----- From: David Ngo [mailto:dngo@getlisa.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:45 AM To: smarty-dev@lists.php.net Subject: [SMARTY-DEV] smarty vs php includes At my work I work with a html designer and one other programmer. Both of them refuse to learn to use Smarty and keep arguing that we should do away with it. My boss's take on it is that Smarty adds complexity with little benefit. Their solution is to just do away with the templates and instead have php include files with html in them that will act as the templates. We also have a proposed solution using xml that can replace the caching options that Smarty has built in. I have to come up with a few examples where using Smarty is a better solution. Does anyone have any extremely convincing examples I can use to change these people's minds? All of the examples I have seen on the Smarty site and through google are very simplistic examples that could easily be replaced by php includes. I do not want to move away from Smarty because I feel it makes my code better structured, easy to read, and just forces me to have better coding habits. However how do I explain to someone that has never used Smarty and refuses to learn it that it is the way to go? I fear that if I can't come up with some good examples we will switch to the system of using php includes as templates which I do not like at all. -- Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php