Posted by pete M on 04/07/05 17:26

Very well said Vicente!!! ;-)

Vicente Werner wrote:
> All I can say is that certainly they haven't seriously evaluated
> smarty, you can use it pretty much in the same way than Xtemplate,
> template power or any other "just replace the vars" template system
> out there. Said that, the real advantage of smarty is that it let's
> you separate the presentation logic from bussines logic, not just the
> html code, but also higher order process related to output like
> trasnlation, creation of tables, etc... in order to let you change
> your presentation without 0 changes on your bussines logic.
>
> In many cases the presentation layer & the logic behind it represents
> the bigger amount of code in your system, smarty reduces the size of
> it by much.
>
> Now I'm working on a platform for an ISP, all of it on php+smarty,
> right now the feature set of it is already bigger than the existing
> platform while having 1/12 it's code size -extrapolating from current
> development, it'll have about 1/3 the size of the actual one, being
> functionally equivalent and with lots of extra features-, most of it
> thanks to smarty and the way it has allowed me to develop it.

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