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How does smarty template work?
Smarty generates web content through the placement of special Smarty tags within a document. These tags are processed and substituted with other code. Tags are directives for Smarty that are enclosed by template delimiters.
What is smarty used for?
Smarty is a templating engine for PHP. Designers who are used to working with HTML files can work with Smarty templates, which are HTML files with simple tags while programmers work with the underlying PHP code. The Smarty engine brings the code and templates together.
When should you use a templating engine?
A template engine enables you to use static template files in your application. At runtime, the template engine replaces variables in a template file with actual values, and transforms the template into an HTML file sent to the client. This approach makes it easier to design an HTML page.
How do you use Smarty?
Smarty Installation
- Prepare a directory for practicing, for example wamp/www/smarty.
- Download the file Smarty Template. You can download it from their site at smarty.php.net.
- Extract the Smarty compressed file.
- Then simply rename that folder to “smarty”.
- Create two folders named: template and template_c.
What is the Smarty template engine for PHP?
Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic.
What kind of syntax does Smarty templates use?
SYNTAX: Templates typically consist of semantic markup such as HTML. PHP syntax works well for application code, but quickly degenerates when mixed with HTML. Smarty’s simple {tag} syntax is designed specifically to express presentation. Smarty focuses your templates on presentation and less on “code”.
What can Smarty be used for other than HTML?
First, Smarty can be used for more than just XML/HTML based templates, such as generating emails, javascript, CSV, and PDF documents. Second, XML/XSLT syntax is even more verbose and fragile than PHP code! It is perfect for computers, but horrible for humans. Smarty is about being easy to read, understand and maintain.
Can you use Smarty as an alternative to Zend?
Smarty is not an alternative to Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, or any of the other application development frameworks for PHP. Smarty is a template engine, and works as the (V)iew component of your application. Smarty can easily be coupled to any of the engines listed above as the view component.