Nicolas Connault wrote:
Ok, I'm getting really confused now. Voices are crying out all over the place about template engines (smarty is foremost in mind), and they all seem to disagree. I find Smarty extremely useful for a number of reasons which are difficult to express (call it my comfort zone!), but articles are popping up everywhere saying that it's no good, and then don't really show any viable alternative.Personally, I've never been a fan of Smarty. It just feels too bloated straight off the bat. It's like trying to pick up another language just to handle something which should be, in my opinion, really simple. That's why I advocate the less complex template systems. Unfortunately I can't recommend one for you because I stopped looking around years ago and just decided to develop my own. If you *really* want, I could dig up the last one I was working on but that'd require a fair bit of cleaning up before it might be worthwhile (it was damn fast, however!).
What do you guys think? Should I just give up PHP altogether and start Ruby?
Ignore that last question, the first one is the topic :-)
Nicolas
Hope this helps (although it probably didn't), Evan