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[nycphp-talk] Why Smarty?

Ian Forsyth ian at plusfour.org
Mon May 5 18:24:39 EDT 2003


http://ootips.org/mvc-pattern.html

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 03:20 PM, soazine at pop.erols.com wrote:

> I might be having a brain freeze but I believe it stands for 
> "Multilevel
> Versioning Control", as in the process of versioning templates.  Am I
> either right or has the caffeine wore off already?
>
> Phil
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> Original Message:
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> From: Malcolm, Gary gmalcolm at professionalcredit.com
> Date: Mon,  5 May 2003 18:14:09 -0400
> To: talk at nyphp.org
> Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Why Smarty?
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> Emmanuel,
>
> 	Smarty is pure MVC...
>
> 	The business logic model is completely in the programmers hands (me)
> and  can be passed off design to people who like to make pretty 
> pictures...
> with the caveat that they get the Smarty template logic to make 
> repetative
> stuff like tables easy without diving into the complexity of a full 
> blown
> language.
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> 	Smarty is the go-between Controller with a built in debugger.
>
> 	I can support thousands more pages now that I don't have to think
> about layout or coach designers through script code.
>
> 	If you maintain a small site and enjoy layout detail yourself then
> this tool is still cool but probably unnecessary...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Emmanuel. M. Decarie [mailto:emm at scriptdigital.com]
>> Sent: Monday, 05 May, 2003 3:01 PM
>> To: NYPHP Talk
>> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Why Smarty?
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>> Beside caching, why use Smarty? I'm a little bit puzzled by this.
>> <http://smarty.php.net/whyuse.php>
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>> I'm already using a MVC model to do all my PHP development.
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>> It look to me that Smarty is recreating its own mini language
>> à la EmbedPerl.
>> <http://perl.apache.org/embperl/pod/intro/Intro.-page-4-.htm>
>>
>> Is there an advantage in that? Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Please, don't see this as flames bait. I just want to hear about the
>> pro and con.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Cheers
>> -Emmanuel
>> -- 
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Emmanuel Décarie / Programmation pour le Web - Programming for the Web
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