1. Introduction¶

1.1. What is Smarty?¶

Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation.

Some of Smarty’s features: [1]

• It is extremely fast.
• It is efficient since the PHP parser does the dirty work.
• No template parsing overhead, only compiles once.
• It is smart about recompiling only the template files that have changed.
• You can easily create your own custom functions and variable modifiers, so the template language is extremely extensible.
• Configurable template {delimiter} tag syntax, so you can use {$foo}, {{$foo}}, <!--{$foo}-->, etc.
• The {if}..{elseif}..{else}..{/if} constructs are passed to the PHP parser, so the {if...} expression syntax can be as simple or as complex an evaluation as you like.
• Allows unlimited nesting of sections, if’s etc.
• Built-in caching support.
• Arbitrary template sources.
• Template Inheritance for easy management of template content.
• Plugin architecture.

See the Smarty3 Manual for other features and information on it’s syntax, configuration and installation.

1.2. Requirements¶

• PHP 5.3.3 and up.
• Symfony 2
• Smarty 3

1.3. License¶

This bundle is licensed under the LGPL-3 License. See the LICENSE file for details.