direction needed...

zymosan

Hi i've been learning PHP and now I want to start learning a template system. I've looked at Smarty and at Flexy, but I'm not sure which one is the best. There seems to be a lot more tutorials on Smarty, but i've found that I like the functionality that PEAR has. So any recommendations that people have would be great. Also if anyone knows where i can find some good Flexy tutorials that would be much appreciated!

Eric

bpat1434

I personally like to write my own. Suits me much better. Plus, when you need something just a certain way, you can code it in yourself, and not have to find work-arounds from others' code.

I've fiddled with Smarty, but didn't like it. Never heard of flexy though, but usually using PEAR is pretty nice & easy (considering it's written by the same people that write PHP). Pretty much, it's up to you and what your needs are. If you don't need the full blown Smarty or Flexy system, write your own. If you can't seem to get what you want out of it, write your own. But the ultimate decision is up to you.

~Brett

zymosan

Yeah a read a few articles about people writing their own or just using the current functionality of PHP to generate a template system. I guess my biggest concern is that i don't want to learn something and then have a bunch of people tell me that I should have learned something else.

If you know of any tutorials dealing with creating your own system or just using PHP geared toward templating that would help.

I really am a noob at this and am mainly looking to learn things right the first time. Currently I'm just using a wrapper that someone else wrote and putting require_once stuff directly into html pages, but i know that doesn't exactly flow with the MVC convention (which my understanding of is limited to "this is how things SHOULD be done")

Thanks for the help!

bpat1434

Well, if you want to create your own, I suggest you follow this article on DevShed.
Building your own Template Parser Class
That is the one that started me, and I liked it. Easy enough to use.

~Brett