[annyphp]

I'm designing a web app using the 3-tier pattern. I need a PHP template engine with good performance, and I'm looking at Smarty.

Feature-wise it seems good. My only concern is speed; I'm trying to squeeze as much performance as possible out of a 360. Anybody know the performance drawbacks? Or, have other suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

[DerM]

Use this one instead of Smarty
http://dwoo.org/

I'm using it with Code Igniter 1.7.2 (2 -unstable-) and Kohana MVC.

[pRiMUS]

maybe you use php itself as template engine.

[bacon]

http://www.twig-project.org/

Twig is a django-styled templating engine supporting inheritance, blocks, automagically variable escaping and other nice features. Despite of which dsl you choose - if you really need a templating engine, don't use smarty.

Twig uses an AST for later manipulation, optimization and compiles to plain php which in return may be cached by any bytecode/opcode cache mechanism of your choice. So performance should not matter.

Smarty is - in my opinion - php3 crap and slightly bloatet. You should rely on a modern and robust application architecture under the hood if you claim a modern architecture for your own application.

So un jetz: Schwätz' Deutsch

[DerM]

[choise]

[bacon]

jo warum?

[choise]