Posted by Mattias Thorslund on 04/30/05 00:42

Skrol 29 wrote:

>> What templating engines do you use with php and why?
>> Ive been using smarty (http://smarty.php.net)
>> Clive.
>
>
> I just can't work with PHP the usual way.
> Mixing business source and interface source is something too bastard
> for me.
> Now that I know templates systems I totaly disagree to say that PHP is a
> Template Engine. Ok, it has some basic template features, but they are
> too
> poor to use it this way seriously.


Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody. What are the
"basic template features"?

However, there is a school of thought regarding templates that advocates
template engines (written in, for instance, PHP) which use PHP as their
template syntax, so that there is no need to invent new tags or
placeholders. You could read the article I linked to before, it has
examples. Actually, here's the link again:

http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/

Best regards,

Mattias



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