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[Oktay Altunergil]

I have just recently started experimenting with Smarty too. I started by reading almost all of the documentation on smarty.php.net (this url is one of the reasons I picked smarty.. there aren't many other reasons really.. i just wanted to try a template system. i'd try another if I didn't like it)


Pros: 

- good docs
- very easy to install ( should be a part of PEAR if  you ask me )
- html designer friendly syntax (if you are lucky enough to have somebody who does design only)
- provides template functions for stuff that you can't really handle in your PHP file but that still require some kind of programming logic.
(i.e: you pass an array in form of ('1' => "option 1 text", '2' => "option 2 text") and it draws the dropdown <OPTION> tags for you including marking the right one as SELECTED )

Cons:
- yet another syntax to learn for the templates
- i haven't done anything complicated yet.. but I can see how you might need to embed some PHP in the template

These are not necessaryly particular to smarty but I haven't used another template engine.

oktay

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:22:52 -0500
Kerem Tuzemen <keremtuzemen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Larry,
> 
> I'm using Smarty as template engine in our applications. It's much more than
> a simple template engine since it also has caching capability. If you check
> different sources on the net you'll find out that it's caching engine really
> works and makes the difference(I would say it adds at least 40-50% speed
> when compared to other template engines). Besides it's pretty easy to learn
> and to use. It also has some complex scripting capabilities like generating
> date drop downs, or listing data arrays in the templates, etc but I really
> don't use them in order to keep all of the code on the php side.
> 
> It can also use embedded php blocks in templates but as I already explained,
> I don't really like the idea of putting code everywhere in a framework. It
> has a perl template engine's flavor; at the beginning this was the point
> that made me pick Smarty among its competitors but I then realized
> that -after reading some ( :o) in fact, lots of) critiques and benchmarks
> about different template engines- Smarty was really the best choice.
> 
> So take some time to go over its reference documentation, I'm pretty sure
> that you'll love it.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Kerem
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Chuon" <LarryC at indexstock.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] OSSuite Released
> 
> 
> > Thanks a bunch, Hans, for the offer.  I take a ring check for now since we
> > have all the required hardware already.   Right now, we just need more
> > programmers or scripters, whichever suite you better.  We have no problem
> > mentioning names either Donald J. Organ IV, if you're serious about
> helping
> > out. ;0)
> >
> > BTW, for the CRM component, we were thinking about template language.
> Does
> > anybody have personal experience with Smarty or FastTemplate?  Please
> share
> > the pros and cons.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hans Zaunere [mailto:hans at nyphp.org]
> > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:09 PM
> > To: NYPHP Talk
> > Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] OSSuite Released
> >
> >
> > --- Larry Chuon <LarryC at indexstock.com> wrote:
> > > Oktay,
> > >
> > > I'm glad everything went well for you.  Our goal is to make an
> open-source
> > > business application more intuitive and productive for businesses.
> > > Hopefully, we'll gain support from members of NYPHP to take OSSuite a
> step
> > > further.  We look forward to work with all of you at any capacity.
> >
> > I'm sure you have what you need Larry, but should you need a virtual
> private
> > server (meaning root and whatever specially configured daemons/etc), the
> > NYPHP projects server is online with capacity to spare.  Just say the word
> > and I'll set an instance up for you.
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Hans Zaunere
> > New York PHP
> > http://nyphp.org
> > hans at nyphp.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
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