Hello all,
When I was a student, I was doing some PHP and I build a webapp for a friend's site. It was around 1999, therefore I coded the app with PHP3, PHPlib and FastTemplates.
However, my friend's site is now very successful, and I have to admit that nowadays my application is really too crappy for that site. So my friend asked me to do a new version, but I haven't coded much in PHP since 1999.
As I said, I was using FastTemplates for templates and PHPlib for session managment, database access, user managment and printing nice tables with the content of databases rows.
Now, apparently FastTemplate has not been updated since 1999 and PHPlib since 2003 and both seem to be abandonned.
So my question is, what do you use instead of PHPlib and FastTemplate nowadays? (the site has been upgraded to php4)
Thank you!
Back to php after several years, some questions
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Thank you for your answers.
I have already looked into PEAR and I could also write my own libs. I could even continue to use PHPlib and FT for what it is worth.
However, I am looking for something that is reusable and kind of "industry standard", like PHPlib and FastTemplate were a few years ago.
This is mostly because it will probably not be me who will maintain the software in the future.
For templates, Smarty seems to do the trick. I would like the same for authentication.
I have already looked into PEAR and I could also write my own libs. I could even continue to use PHPlib and FT for what it is worth.
However, I am looking for something that is reusable and kind of "industry standard", like PHPlib and FastTemplate were a few years ago.
This is mostly because it will probably not be me who will maintain the software in the future.
For templates, Smarty seems to do the trick. I would like the same for authentication.