[UPHPU] Template engines

Wade Preston Shearer lists at wadeshearer.com
Sun Oct 8 22:42:54 MDT 2006


> The only compelling argument I've found to use Smarty as the template
> language is that it's more limited, and therefore will help enforce
> the separation of display logic and other logic.  I used Smarty for a
> couple of months, but like other people have said, it was just a big
> pain to have one more language, one more manual to look things up in,
> and it was also a pain to have to write my own Smarty plugins to
> implement display logic I couldn't do with Smarty alone.  I've gone
> back to just using PHP for the templates.

If limiting use is a concern, simply pump it all through a class  
where you control the scope of what the front end can and cannot call.

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