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[esm]

I could agree with that. my take on SMARTY is, if you are not comfortable with reading/writing some basic PHP code, you will not feel comfortable with SMARTY.

here is a SMARTY example

Name: {$name|capitalize}<br>
Address: {$address|escape}<br>
Date: {$smarty.now|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}<br>

<table>
{section name=mysec loop=$name}
{strip}
   <tr bgcolor="{cycle values="#eeeeee,#dddddd"}">
      <td>{$name[mysec]}</td>
   </tr>
{/strip}
{/section}
</table>

<table>
{section name=mysec loop=$users}
{strip}
   <tr bgcolor="{cycle values="#aaaaaa,#bbbbbb"}">
      <td>{$users[mysec].name}</td>
      <td>{$users[mysec].phone}</td>
   </tr>
{/strip}
{/section}
</table>

and that is just the HTML file. you (or someone) will still need to go into the PHP file and assign the actual data values to the variables in order for the data to print in the SMARTY template.

Here is an example of that assignment in SMARTY:

$smarty->assign('users', array(
	array('name' => 'bob', 'phone' => '555-3425'),
	array('name' => 'jim', 'phone' => '555-4364'),
	array('name' => 'joe', 'phone' => '555-3422'),
	array('name' => 'jerry', 'phone' => '555-4973'),
	array('name' => 'fred', 'phone' => '555-3235')
	));

just your standard array inside of an array. not much different that just plain old PHP.



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[inspireme]

considering that smarty is ment to seperate code from design, it probably does get a little bogged down sometimes

[aladdin1]

considering that smarty is ment to seperate code from design, it probably does get a little bogged down sometimes

Hello,

I personaly think that smarty is one of the worst program I had the misfortune to use, it does not compile template very well in the best case and if you have Java in the template it may not compile at all.
If you are a programmer you will not have any problem but if you are a programmer you do not need it.

[inspireme]

Smarty does allow you to develop complicated code without having to mess with php, you can use loops, and other programming functions in the template to get the results you need without worrying about breaking the php code. I reckon this would only by an advantage to indexU users that really want to change the program. For out of the box users its an added complication.