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30 lines
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Smarty is a template engine for PHP. More specifically, it facilitates a
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manageable way to separate application logic and content from its
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presentation.
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One design goal of Smarty is the separation of business logic and
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presentation logic. This means templates can certainly contain logic
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under the condition that it is for presentation only.
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One of the unique aspects about Smarty is the template compiling. This
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means Smarty reads the template files and creates PHP scripts from them.
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Once they are created, they are executed from then on. Therefore there
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is no costly template file parsing for each request.
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Some of Smarty's features:
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* extremely fast
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* efficient since the PHP parser does the dirty work
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* no template parsing overhead, only compiles once
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* recompiling only the template files that have changed
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* custom functions and custom variable modifiers
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* configurable template delimiter tag syntax
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* the if/elseif/else/endif constructs are passed to the PHP parser, so
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the {if ...} expression syntax can be as simple or as complex as you
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like.
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* unlimited nesting of sections, ifs, etc.
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* embedding PHP code right in template files
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* built-in caching support
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* arbitrary template sources
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* custom cache handling functions
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* plugin architecture
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