[quote56e90="emke"]We use Smarty. It's by far the best and most advanced template engine I've seen.
Can be found on: http://smarty.php.net/[/quote56e90]
i was just looking into that one. seems very nice, and I like the fact that it's customizable. do you know php FastTemplate? if so, how does smarty compare to that?
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[quotea6e70="emke"]I'm familiar with FastTemplate but I've not used it as much as Smarty that I can compare the two and tell you what to choose. Sorry [/quotea6e70]
no problem
it's just that looking through smarty i think it might just be a bit too big, too customizable, for our needs.
I'll give it a try on a few basic test-things and see how I like it
no problem
it's just that looking through smarty i think it might just be a bit too big, too customizable, for our needs.
I'll give it a try on a few basic test-things and see how I like it
The problem I see with Smarty is it's trying to do too much and in the process acts more like a mini-language parser than a templating engine ... the whole point of templates is separation of code from content yet Smarty introduces a pile of language constructs into the templating system, kind of at odds with it's intended function
Not that I'm saying Smarty is bad, far from it, it's really rather well done in general ... but that IMHO it tries to be 'too much'.
Not that I'm saying Smarty is bad, far from it, it's really rather well done in general ... but that IMHO it tries to be 'too much'.
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[quotebf57f="wanrecords"][quotebf57f="psoTFX"]There's always ours [/quotebf57f]
well, I considered that but it's not really documented is it?[/quotebf57f]
Not at the moment but we are planning a document for it
Its interface is very similar to phpLib templates (because we started with phpLib but found it was too slow for the amount of templates we had) so if you understand that interface you should have no problem moving to our template system.
well, I considered that but it's not really documented is it?[/quotebf57f]
Not at the moment but we are planning a document for it
Its interface is very similar to phpLib templates (because we started with phpLib but found it was too slow for the amount of templates we had) so if you understand that interface you should have no problem moving to our template system.
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[quote832bb="theFinn"][quote832bb="wanrecords"][quote832bb="psoTFX"]There's always ours [/quote832bb]
well, I considered that but it's not really documented is it?[/quote832bb]
Not at the moment but we are planning a document for it
Its interface is very similar to phpLib templates (because we started with phpLib but found it was too slow for the amount of templates we had) so if you understand that interface you should have no problem moving to our template system.[/quote832bb]
hmmm...
well, I think TemplatePower will do nicely for now. maybe for my own sourceforge projects I might someday use the phpBB template engine.
and so far, I havent used phpLib. it seems quite similar to FastTemplate and TemplatePower though
well, I considered that but it's not really documented is it?[/quote832bb]
Not at the moment but we are planning a document for it
Its interface is very similar to phpLib templates (because we started with phpLib but found it was too slow for the amount of templates we had) so if you understand that interface you should have no problem moving to our template system.[/quote832bb]
hmmm...
well, I think TemplatePower will do nicely for now. maybe for my own sourceforge projects I might someday use the phpBB template engine.
and so far, I havent used phpLib. it seems quite similar to FastTemplate and TemplatePower though