Smarty

[mud]

I am completely new to Smarty, but I ever did Templating with PHPLIB's templates. At that time, I was used to use different template, one for each element. So I had one index.tpl, one menu.tpl, one poll.tpl etc.

It was quite easy for me to maintain & to fix problems for each of my elements.

So here is the question:

Can Smarty perform multiple inclusions?
Did I took the good logic to "dissect" my site?
If Smarty can, is this kind of logic fast to implement?
Was Smarty designed to do this kind of job?

I asked these questions, because, contrary to other template's systems, like fasttemplates, I didn't found ANY tutorials related to inclusion of files.

Thx for all answers, When I tried it, I made Smarty my own.

[boots]

That should work fine with Smarty. You can include templates, nest includes and assign the result of the template to a template variable. You can have dynamic inclusion and you can load templates not only from the filesystem, but also custom resources.

See: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.include.php

[mud]

I'll try it very soon.... just hope that it will be easy to "convert" my old PHPLIB like website...

[mud]

What can I do if I have one principal template which looks like this one

index.tpl