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natefanaro
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Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:05 am    Post subject: Smarty is totally awesome Reply with quote

I've been an amateur php web developer for a few years and have always had an issue with separating code from layout. I recently decided to completely rewrite an old project of mine, gobloggo[dot]com. It took a while to rewrite but using smarty made things go much smoother than if I came up with something on my own. Pagination was a breeze with the plugin. So far the website is using one theme but I plan on making some more. This might include an iPhone theme that's switched on via user agent.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that made smarty awesome!
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pittendrigh
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Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Smarty is totally awesome Reply with quote

natefanaro wrote:
I've been an amateur php web developer for a few years and have always had an issue with separating code from layout. I recently decided to completely rewrite an old project of mine, gobloggo[dot]com. It took a while to rewrite but using smarty made things go much smoother than if I came up with something on my own. Pagination was a breeze with the plugin. So far the website is using one theme but I plan on making some more. This might include an iPhone theme that's switched on via user agent.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that made smarty awesome!


Convince me:

I'm serious about this. I'm willing (even wanting) to be convinced.
I used Smarty on a files-based CMS I'm working on. I found it difficult
to debug. My system now uses file_get_contents($path), thereby
accomplishing what I wanted (html fragments get sucked into a system
where the layout and appearance is defined externally, by layout libraries
and css).

My system doesn't have caching yet. But it will. There are lots of free caching
libraries out there. So far I just don't see (maybe I'm blind) what Smarty
accomplishes. In Java Tomcat programming a templating engine is
great: you can update HTML with a text editor and you don't need to
rebuild the application. But that isn't an issue with an interpreted scripting
language.
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mohrt
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Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Posts: 7368
Location: Lincoln Nebraska, USA

PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
So far I just don't see (maybe I'm blind) what Smarty
accomplishes.


It's all listed on the website.

http://www.smarty.net/whyuse.php
http://www.smarty.net/rightforme.php
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pittendrigh
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Joined: 15 Jul 2007
Posts: 5

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mohrt wrote:
Quote:
So far I just don't see (maybe I'm blind) what Smarty
accomplishes.


It's all listed on the website.

http://www.smarty.net/whyuse.php
http://www.smarty.net/rightforme.php


...But I can (and do) accomplish that with a system built around
file_get_contents() ....html fragments can be edited with vi
without any access to logic or overall layout.

And with file_get_contents I don't have to fight with
hard-to-debug tpl flies. Templating makes sense
for Java (can change html without recomiling) but
I didn't see hassle trade-off for php.
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mohrt
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a toolbox, you don't have to reinvent the wheel on a lot of useful features presentation side, and it enforces presentation separation. If it doesn't work for you, don't use it Smile
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