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Smarty 3 and Zend Framework Feb 8, 2011
Gediminas Morkevičius has written an extension for Zend Framework, check it out!
Smarty 3 extension for Zend
Smarty 3 extension for Zend
Showcase: XOOPS uses Smarty 3 Jan 31, 2011
The XOOPS developers say:
The XOOPS Project just presented an Alpha release of its next generation Web Application Development platform the Xoops Engine.
XOOPS is one of the most successful Open Source CMS solutions, constantly winning top places in various competitions, and receiving various awards. But it was slowly showing signs of aging that would require major rewrites of the Core. After much deliberation the team decided to rewrite it from the ground-up using a standard off-the-shelf PHP Framework. Following the same thinking as IBM or Apple did when they decided to use standard Intel chips, the XOOPS team believes that using standard components and libraries while focusing on unique value-add, will increase the speed to market for XOOPS. The Xoops Engine is be probably the first and only case so far of rewriting a major Open Source project using an industry standard PHP Framework.
After some research and evaluation, XOOPS team has selected Zend Framework, the best and most popular PHP Framework on the market. By using the Zend Framework XOOPS can take advantage of the latest Web trends and vast resources provided by the Zend Framework developers.
While we've spent some time looking for the best PHP Framework for us, it was a no-brainer in regards to templates! :)
We've been using Smarty in XOOPS successfully since 2002, so it was only logical that we'll continue to use Smarty in the Xoops Engine as well, and the timing of the Smarty 3.0 release couldn't be better - we were able to incorporate it in our Alpha release right away as our default view templating engine.
Thank you Smarty Team for all your hard work and we're looking forward to keep using Smarty as it grows and is getting better.
XOOPS Project
www.xoops.org
Congrats on the new release!
Showcase: TestLink uses Smarty 3 Jan 6, 2011
The TestLink developers say:
TestLink, is the leading Open Source Test Management application. A mature application present for more than 6 years on the open source area, has reached version 1.9 on Dic 2010, adding more and more features like:
- better user experiencie usinng EXT-JS
- improvements on Requirements Management
- allow integration with third party application through XML-RPC API.
- integration with well known BTS (Mantis,Bugzilla,Jira,etc)
- and more
TestLink is developed using PHP,Smarty,Apache. We have started development of version 2.0 migrating from Smarty 2.x to Smarty 3, and we have found that quality of our templates will increase thanks to new features. We expect that TestLink to be fast and responsive, as does our community, and switching
Thanks a lot for your work
TestLink Development Team
http://www.teamst.org/
Very nice!
Showcase: Elance uses Smarty 3 Jan 5, 2011
Jeff from Elance says:
Elance, the world's leading platform for online employment, helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud. For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to qualified professionals who work online. Elance provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results. Elance is faster and more cost-effective than job boards, staffing firms and traditional outsourcing. For skilled professionals who want to work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work. Elancers have already delivered on projects worth more than $325 million.
PHP is the most frequently requested skill on Elance, among the over 35,000 projects posted every month. Not only do clients request it but we use PHP extensively on the Elance site. About six months ago we started converting some pages from using ETS to Smarty 3 and we have seen up to 30% improvements in the time it takes to create those pages. We will continue to convert more pages as the benefits are real and easy to measure. We expect our site to be fast and responsive, as does our community, and switching to Smarty 3 is helping us reach the performance levels we demand.
Thank you Smarty!
Jeff Ligh - Technical Lead
http://www.elance.com/
Congrats Jeff!
Happy Holidays! Dec 25, 2010
Wishing everyone out there a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Showcase: Develop your apps using Smarty 3 and PhpStorm Dec 21, 2010
Alexey from JetBrains says:
PhpStorm is a smart cross-platform PHP IDE focused on developer productivity. A key advantage of PhpStorm is its deep understanding of code, be it JavaScript, PHP, HTML or CSS. The IDE performs a comprehensive analysis of project code and offers developers best-in-class code insight, code completion suggestions, refactoring facilities and on-the-fly error checking.
Smarty Support has been included in PhpStorm from the very beginning, and now its latest version also brings its users Smarty 3 power.
The editor supports Smarty syntax, highlights its keywords, automatically closes tags and enables autocompletion of Smarty tags in template files. It correctly handles all possible mixtures of HTML markup, PHP, JavaScript and Smarty; for example, it can give you helpful autocompletion and quick-fixes for JavaScript code embedded in an HTML block inside a Smarty template.
Of course, you can use custom delimiters to avoid conflicts between standard Smarty delimiters { } and javascript brackets. For example, you may set delimiters for Smarty like this: <!--{. This is no problem for PhpStorm.
Another very useful feature is the Structure view where you can overview and navigate through your template structure, which is especially handy for large and complex templates. Code folding/unfolding also makes working with big templates user-friendly.
In addition to Smarty support, you get many nice IDE features such as project deployment and synchronization over FTP, VCS support (including Git and Mercurial), PhpUnit support, a Visual Debugger based on Xdebug or Zend Debugger, as well as best-in-class JavaScript editing support.
Read more about smarty support in PhpStorm
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
Congrats Alexey!
Showcase: Dragon Venue uses Smarty 3 Dec 15, 2010
Jernej from Dragon Venue says:
DRAGON Venue is an advanced ticketing, booking and marketing software for Sports, Arts & Culture and General Admission events & attractions. Internet Web kiosk is an integral part of today's ticketing solutions. It's used for selling tickets, ticket packages, memberships, gift cards, etc. DRAGON Venue web kiosks based on Smarty template engine make about 400.000 transactions per year. This is close to 1 million tickets sold per year. With Smarty internal cache we are able to process large number of requests in very short time.
We have started using Smarty about 2 years ago because customers were looking for personalized graphic design and multi-language functionality of their web kiosks. With Smarty we can offer every client their own personalized web ticketing kiosk and still be able to maintain and upgrade the system even with large number of customers. Smarty is also used for self-service kiosk solutions (ticketing robots). We have now upgraded almost all of our clients to Smarty 3. The web kiosk is now much faster. The system is used in Slovenia, Croatia and UK.
Thank you Smarty, for making our life easier!
Jernej Lekse, head of Web Development Dragon Ticketing
http://www.mojekarte.si
http://www.dragonticketing.com/
Congrats Jernej!
Showcase: Trovit uses Smarty 3 Dec 13, 2010
Christian from Trovit says:
Trovit is an international classifieds search engine based in Barcelona, Spain, which is present in 20 countries around the world. With four verticals (homes, cars, jobs and products) it aggregates content from nearly 10,000 sites around the web and enables its users to find what they're looking for quickly and easily.
Trovit has been using Smarty for over four years. We're currently using version 2 and we're in the process of swapping to version 3. It's used intensively in all of the pages of Trovit's site, even in the internal backoffice! We employ Smarty functionalities like caching and internationalization, with lang files in 20 different languages or localizations.
We can't wait to test the new Smarty 3 features in our production environment, especially to take advantage of perfomance improvements.
Here are some stats:
* around 300 templates
* 20 languages
* 30 custom-made plugins
* over 150M pageviews per month
http://www.trovit.com/
Congrats Christian!
Kate gets Smarty 3 Dec 13, 2010
The popular KDE text editor Kate now has Smarty 3 syntax highlighting thanks to Massimiliano Torromeo, check it out!
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