| Ara Anjargolian 2004-07-08, 4:04 pm |
| Hi,
I'm very new to this newsgroup so please excuse me if this
has been discussed before, but is there any interest at all
in a "Light" version of Smarty which would basically be Smarty
with some of the more sparsely used functionality safely ripped out?
I am building a large web app and using Smarty and I was considering
of doing something like this. I keep hearing complaints of how Smarty
is bloated and while I do not necessarilly share these sentiments I
thought maybe it might be nice to have a Smarty-compatible template
system that is smaller, more limited.
For example in our templates we don't ever forsee the need to
use:
filters
{section} (iterating through mulitple arrays is nice but, for us anyway,
not essential)
any "security" settings
{strip}
{capture}
{insert}
and a few other little things.
On the otherhand I would tend to keep a few of the features
that IMHO make Smarty Smarty such as the clever plugin architecture
and fairly sophisticated caching system.
Anyway, I just wanted to get other peoples take on what a Smarty Light
would/should look like. I think this is a something that I will get
around to in the next few months and could certainly make it public
if other people would find it at all useful.
Kind Regards,
Ara
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