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Topic: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

Hi All,

I'm going to start a project which is going to be template based. couple of my friends suggested that Smarty is the best template engine I can go for. But few of them are telling it ll degrade the perfomance. I would like to hear from you ppl. Pls let me know what you have ur opinion about template engines and let me know the best template  engine to work on... Hope to see ur reply soon...
Thanks in Advance!!

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  • From: India
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Re: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

also someone suggested this http://phpsavant.com/ and pat.. i havent have experiend in either.. if anyone knows ... just help me out..

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3 Reply by hcgtv

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Re: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

I don't know the best but here's an extensive list:

http://phpxref.net/viewtopic.php?id=537

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  • quaker
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Re: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

man... find a nice css template http://oswd.org
then use punbb....
http://www.bunpai.com------> in the forum is all the mods i did...haha
oh, everyone check out my new theme called tribal........

http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=1723

sup? hcgtv..............


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5 Reply by Paul

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Re: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

Why do you need a template engine, its just another language to learn and does nothing useful. Thats not to say you shouldn't template your project but why do you need something like Smarty on top of php.

  • Registered: 2006-06-29
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Re: Which is the Best Template Engine for PHP?

my blog uses smarty, which I find to be a pain in the butt (but works good). 

I dont know what they're talking about degrading performance, because it compiles your templates to php files, and should run just like standard php scripts.