On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 11:33 +0200, Alain Roger wrote: > I'm just reading a book on PHP and they promote quite heavily smarty as > template designer tool for presenting information and data to users. > > they absolutly do not talk about pear and i'm a little surprised. That's why > i'm wondering who use what and for which reason. > > Basically let's say for data/information presentation to end user...what is > the best lib (pear, smarty....) ? > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 11:09 +0200, Alain Roger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i would like to know if you are a lot to use PHP templates for your web > > > application or web sites ? > > > if yes, which one do you use (smarty, pear, yapter, phplib,...) ? > > > and for which reason ? what is/are the advantages over the others ? > > > > > > thanks a lot, > > > > > I wouldn't really call them templates, they're more libraries, and they > > all have their individual uses. Generally, your use of them will depend > > on what you actually want. > > > > Can you explain a few details of what you are actually looking to do? > > > > > > Ash > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > I'm not sure comparing Pear and Smarty is really how to go about it. It's a bit like comparing a apples and oranges. Smarty is indeed a template/presentation framework, but Pear is more a library of components (as is phplib) which offers some presentation components, but isn't solely designed towards that purpose. Personally, if I were you, I'd go with Smarty for the time being, as it has been designed as a template engine, so it should be easier to get to grips with. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
