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[Martin Kutschker]

Francois Suter schrieb:
> 
> I guess that's exactly what I fail to be impressed with. All those 
> constructs are so close to PHP, what's the benefit of using Smarty?

Still a lot easier to grasp plus a few nice additions for 
odd/even-first/last markups. I think Smarty templates can be used by the 
better HTML coders, yet they do not need to know "real" PHP.

Maybe it is a bit too powerful in some situations.

 > Plus
> you have the hassle of loading all the variables that you want to make 
> available into the Smarty object, which means if the engine doesn't load 
> a given variable, then it's not available in Smarty, so that makes it 
> rather less flexible.

Not much different for any MVC construct, right?

Masi