Comments on: Why I use Smarty: PHP is an ugly templating language http://www.dotevan.com/2009/02/05/why-i-use-smarty-php-is-an-ugly-templating-language/ Confessions of a Technology Junkie Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Markus Wright http://www.dotevan.com/2009/02/05/why-i-use-smarty-php-is-an-ugly-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Markus Wright Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:58:15 +0000 http://www.dotevan.com/?p=50#comment-690 Actually, the examples on nosmarty are much more extensive than that, and detail smarty's terrible syntax for variable assignment and function calls. I recommend using H20 templates or even better, just use Django and you're better of in every imaginable way. Actually, the examples on nosmarty are much more extensive than that, and detail smarty’s terrible syntax for variable assignment and function calls.

I recommend using H20 templates or even better, just use Django and you’re better of in every imaginable way.

]]> By: FettesPS http://www.dotevan.com/2009/02/05/why-i-use-smarty-php-is-an-ugly-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-659 FettesPS Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:38:36 +0000 http://www.dotevan.com/?p=50#comment-659 I agree with your article, I've been using Smarty for 3 or 4 years and still love it. Mixing PHP and HTML makes for some serious ugly code. As for I also find that very ugly, and like the author I always type the full <?php part in the tag because back in my Dreamweaver days I was quite annoyed by people who didn't (if it's just <? then Dreamweaver doesn't recognize it as PHP, and I'm sure other IDEs have this fault too). I agree with your article, I’ve been using Smarty for 3 or 4 years and still love it. Mixing PHP and HTML makes for some serious ugly code.

As for I also find that very ugly, and like the author I always type the full <?php part in the tag because back in my Dreamweaver days I was quite annoyed by people who didn't (if it's just <? then Dreamweaver doesn't recognize it as PHP, and I'm sure other IDEs have this fault too).

]]> By: evan http://www.dotevan.com/2009/02/05/why-i-use-smarty-php-is-an-ugly-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-648 evan Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:52:48 +0000 http://www.dotevan.com/?p=50#comment-648 Yup. The problem is that you can't be sure that short tags are universally available. Not a particular problem if you're only writing software for your own systems, but I think it's a bad habit to get in to. I always use the full <?php tag Yup. The problem is that you can’t be sure that short tags are universally available. Not a particular problem if you’re only writing software for your own systems, but I think it’s a bad habit to get in to. I always use the full <?php tag

]]> By: Jesse Dhillon http://www.dotevan.com/2009/02/05/why-i-use-smarty-php-is-an-ugly-templating-language/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Jesse Dhillon Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:32:59 +0000 http://www.dotevan.com/?p=50#comment-645 Did you know that you can use <code> <?= $var ?> </code> to echo a variable? That is the same as <code> <?php echo $var ?> </code>. Did you know that you can use <?= $var ?> to echo a variable? That is the same as <?php echo $var ?> .

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