Which template system should I use?

Mgccl

I see Smarty and other template systems, but I don't see why there are better than mine easy template system.
For speed, I think mine is the best because everything stores as html except part are PHP

see, there will be a file just to output set of arrays($data) to the template, the this file include the template file(which is a php page). Everything inside the page are HTML except out put data, so the speed is faster than any PHP. The output data are always pure data with no HTML code in it...

So Acually... why do we even need Smarty or anything like it... I kind want to know if there is even a point to get an template system that's slow than what people normally do...

bogu

can u use replace in you template engine?

{$string|replace:"this_text":"with_this"}

can u format date from your template engine?

{$smarty.now|date_format}

can check if a value is found in an array?

{if in_array($elem,$array)}

Do u have almost al the php function from php implemented in your template engine?
Like:

{$str|ucfirst|nl2br|stripslashes|addslashes}

And a lot of other things ...

If all the answers to this questions is yes, then u dont need ... 😃

BTW, I use smarty and I love it ... 😃

halojoy

hello
Smarty is by far the most used Template Engine.

If and what Template Engine you want to use, depends on your need.
Many times simple templates using only include 'header.php' - include 'contents.php' - include 'footer.php'
will be better and faster to use.

Here is a Topic at www.sitepoint.com forums
with 153 posted reply:

A Complete List of PHP Template Engines?
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123769

there we can find most every Template Engine around

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finally,
here is a template I use now in a CMS application I am writing.
It works great .. if you do your style.css right ...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title><?php echo$sitename.' :: '.$title ?></title>
<style type="text/css"><!--
<?php include'style.css' ?>
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="pagearea">
  <div id="topheader">
    <div id="headlogo"><img id="logo" src="<?php echo$sitelogo ?>"></div>
    <div id="headsite"><?php echo$sitename ?></div>
    <div id="headmenu"><?php echo$pagemenu ?></div>
    <div id="leftclear"></div></div>
  <div id="allclear"></div>
  <div id="pagecontents"><?php include'home.php' ?></div>
  <div id="bottomfooter"><?php echo$sitefooter ?></div>
</div>
</body></html>