Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] template options - I looked in the archives - never saw anyone discussing smarty...

[Dan Kuykendall]

When we started the project we looked at smarty, which was pretty new at 
the time, and overall we felt that the phplib template class was easier 
to use. Since then smarty has gotten lots of cool features, and has 
improved a good deal.
However, changing templating systems is not a small issue. It requires a 
considerable effort to port all the code, and must require much 
consideration of the options.
Recently we did make the decision to switch templating systems. I 
already knew that simply switching to yet another html only template 
class would be useless so smarty and the rest like it were dismissed 
immediately. The real debate (you can look at the lists) was between 
eTemplates and my own XSLT template class. In the end the XSLT class won 
as our standard templating solution because of performance and the fact 
that XSLT is becoming very popular and we feel that it will help promote 
phpGW's adoption.

So thank you for the recommendation of smarty, but I personally think 
all such template solutions will lose out to XSLT in the next couple of 
years.

Seek3r

Mitch (WebCob) wrote:
> http://smarty.php.net
>
> Seems to be a pretty solid contended - with it's caching support and
> "precompile" assembly of all the includes, it stands to make a biig
> performance boost in many apps - also integrates with accelerator
> technology...
>
> Did anyone look at this one?
>
> Is there a reason to re-invent the wheel?
>
> humble regards,
>
> m/
>
>
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