The Spirit Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 What are the benefits/ disadvantages to using smarty as a template system? It seems to get a bad rap on here? so why? Just looking for general opinions on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Question I would ask is: do I need smarty and some of its features? Or I just need separation of HTML and code? If the second is true, then maybe you could live with something MUCH simpler. However as Octarine said, separation of code and layout is something I would go for, in some form or in another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spirit Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Interesting opinions, thank you one and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudinski Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I think Smarty is good at what it's supposed to do, but it's rather expensive in terms of developing. Although it offers a lot, it's not something I would use on a website. It's just not satisfying with small projects. When talking about large scale developments and implementation thereof, it's great. It offers a lot that IS actually useful to web designers. But, I'm a web developer, and rarely depend upon it for any of my projects as I can easily write a simple script to do what is required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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