| Smarty | |
| Developer: | Monte Ohrt, Messju Mohr, Uwe Tews |
| Programming Language: | PHP |
| Genre: | Template Engine |
| License: | LGPL |
Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns.[1] Smarty is intended to simplify compartmentalization, allowing the front-end of a web page to change separately from its back-end. Ideally, this lowers costs and minimizes the efforts associated with software maintenance.
Smarty generates web content through the placement of special Smarty tags within a document. These tags are processed and substituted with other code. Tags are directives for Smarty that are enclosed by template delimiters. These directives can be variables, denoted by a dollar sign ($), functions, logical or loop statements. Smarty allows PHP programmers to define custom functions that can be accessed using Smarty tags.
Since Smarty separates PHP from HTML, there are two files — one contains the presentation code: an HTML template, including Smarty variables and tags -
The business logic to use the Smarty template above could be as follows:
$smarty = new Smarty;$smarty->template_dir = './templates/';$smarty->compile_dir = './templates/compile/';
$smarty->assign('title_text', 'TITLE: This is the Smarty basic example ...');$smarty->assign('body_html', '
BODY: This is the message set using assign
');$smarty->display('index.tpl');