changing from Xtemplate to Smarty template engine

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January 28th, 2003, 04:05 PM

arnorg

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changing from Xtemplate to Smarty template engine

The xtemplate engine project is dead so i have to move my design layout engine in my CMS to something that has better support....

How about smarty

Can i switch to smarty with my multi template html sites

in Xtemplate i have it something like this:
This is one file.......one file with many different blocks..

PHP Code:


		
			
<!-- BEGIN: main -->



<html>

<head>

<title>awesome template!</title>

</head>

<body>



<!-- BEGIN: events -->

{event_text}

<!-- END: events -->



<!-- BEGIN: news -->

{news_text}

<!-- END: news -->



<!-- BEGIN: news_archive -->

{news_text2}

<!-- END: news_archive -->





</body>

</html>

<!-- END: main -->







and the index.php would be:





$kaktus is an variable in the xtpl class and is:

var $kaktus=()array;



if(in_array('events',$kaktus))

{

$xtpl->assign(event_text,$event);

$xtpl->parse("main.events");

}



if(in_array('news',$kaktus))

{

$xtpl->assign(news_text,$news_text);

$xtpl->parse("main.news");

}



if(in_array('news_archive ',$kaktus))

{

$xtpl->assign(news_text2,$text);

$xtpl->parse("main.news_archive");

}



$xtpl->parse("main");

$xtpl->out("main");

Basically if i need to add a module like a question poll, a news feed or some kind of list....everything that i have to pull out from database and loop the records from it......no need for do some php work.....i only have to add a block ( and  and then it it´s parsed and printed out...

so a designer that doesn´t know anything in php, can build a dynamic site i have don´t have to do anything in php for him...

Does smarty have something similar things? and how is that done?

February 1st, 2003, 02:19 PM

FrankieShakes

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arnorg,

I'm not too familiar with Smarty, but I use patTemplate myself. Based on the code you posted, it seems very similar to patTemplate...

Lindset has also written an article on getting started with patTemplate that will ease your transition.

Hope that sheds some light.

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February 1st, 2003, 03:27 PM