Smarty

[monotreme]

I have a lot of experience with fasttemplates but I am writing my next big project in smarty
because I like the idea of design logic vs. business logic and I think I can play with cacheing to get faster results (even though there is a caching version of fasttemplates now)

In fast templates I use 1 template variable/ page with placeholders that may be replaced with other templates or just stuff that you calculate. At the beginning, you take all the placeholders that are files and tell it about them. So now all the placeholders in any subtemplates, plus any stuff that you didn't assign a template to becomes assignable. Then at the end you parse each subtemplate into the main one.

Smarty doesnt seem to have this parse phase. You just seem to need to assign values into all the placeholders and then display the template. This works fine but I'm just a little fuzzy about how to tell smarty to use a nonstatic subtemplate like header.tpl to put into $header (which would be a smarty var in the main template.) I have made it work by making a new Smarty called $htpl, calculating & assigning all the stuff that should go in the header, then passing $htpl->fetch() back to the main smarty template

So its like this:

[boots]

hi,

Instead of using fetch() in this way (which means some of your layout display logic is in your php code) you can consider using the {include} functionality which does the same thing.

In you main template, use something like: