Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Know about Smarty Templating System

PHPBuilder web site has posted a new article by Ben Robinson, which talks about the Smarty Templating System. He explains that the Smarty templating system is a framework for architecting PHP-based web sites, especially in a collaborative development environment. The article will examine the benefits of Smarty, as well as delve into some basic examples of its implementation.

He makes a case for Smarty under the following sections:

• Why Smarty?: he gives six reasons to explain why you should use Smarty. These ranges from templating, simplicity, object registration and security features, highly customizable, caching and its popular usage.
• Setup: in this section he gives details of the setup. He gives a code example of a template file for the guestbook page.
• Conclusion and Suggestions: here he recommends perusing the smarty documentation. He recommends Smarty as you can develop your own homegrown CMS, which you can tweak it according to your requirements.