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Do many people use smarty?
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:22 am
by fwc
I am playing around with a website, and designing various features. I realized you have to copy the same HTML over and over again if you want multiple pages until my friend guided me to Smarty. Is smarty a good system? Is it easy to use and is it popular? Please vote in my poll.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:24 am
by thiscatis
There has been previous topics about this matter in General Chat
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:44 am
by fwc
thiscatis wrote:There has been previous topics about this matter in General Chat
Thanks I'll search there
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:55 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
Or you could use my Smarty compatible Template Lite, link in sig. I should have a new version out this week with a number of new features.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:53 pm
by superdezign
Yeah, Smarty was way too complex for me. I wrote my own which, originally, I though was going to be simple. Then, I started adding loops which worked okay until Igot nested loops, and then ifs which worked okay until I got nested ifs and ackk.
I rewrote the whole thing today and it's faster AND actually works perfectly (I even programmed in some parser errors and such for myself ^_^). In hindsight, I probably should have used Template Lite, but I was so excited to write my own, and then didn't wanna waste the effort... :-p
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:59 pm
by s.dot
Template Lite.
(I didn't know you were the author AKA Panama Jack, but that is tight!)
Smarty is much too slow and bloated compared to template lite. Template lite claims to be a stripped down version of smarty, but really, every feature you'd need is in there. I love it.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:11 pm
by Ollie Saunders
Of course if you are an XML lover there's always XSLT. You need XSL PHP extension though.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:34 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
scottayy wrote:Template Lite.
(I didn't know you were the author AKA Panama Jack, but that is tight!)
Smarty is much too slow and bloated compared to template lite. Template lite claims to be a stripped down version of smarty, but really, every feature you'd need is in there. I love it.
Thanks
It's written from the ground up without Smarty code except for a few of the plugins. The main focus was on small memory footprint, speed while containing most of the features of Smarty. Plus there are a number of things TL can do that Smarty can't.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:35 pm
by The Phoenix
scottayy wrote:Template lite claims to be a stripped down version of smarty, but really, every feature you'd need is in there.
Save one:
Security mode.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:46 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
The Phoenix wrote:scottayy wrote:Template lite claims to be a stripped down version of smarty, but really, every feature you'd need is in there.
Save one:
Security mode.
Which really isn't needed by most people using Smarty or any template engine.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:52 pm
by The Phoenix
AKA Panama Jack wrote:The Phoenix wrote:scottayy wrote:Template lite claims to be a stripped down version of smarty, but really, every feature you'd need is in there.
Save one:
Security mode.
Which really isn't needed by most people using Smarty or any template engine.

The key word in the sentence was every feature
you'd need.
I need it, and thats that.
