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[timmerk]

Hi,

Sorry, but I am new to Smarty and SmartyValidate. I was wondering when Smarty compiles the template files, if Smarty keeps the actual form element html in the compiled version?

I ask because I am looking for a form validation solution, and things such as HTML Quick_Form that draws the elements programatically takes a lot of overhead, hence is much slower. Would using SmartyValidate be much faster?

Thanks!

[vego]

In my experience, smarty+smartyvalidate is much faster than QF.

I started out using QF as a tool for quickly generating application prototypes. However once I wanted to customise the output generated by QF with renderers, I found out that its speed was getting unacceptable. (I was using QF with smarty as renderer).

For now will remove QF and resort to using smarty+smartyvalidate alone.

I don't think it's an optimal solution, because using smartyvalidate means that the validation logic is moved to the template, which is kind of awkward, as the template should only contain display logic.

But it is much faster, as the html form elements will not have to be generated by QF each time the page displays