At its most basic, Smarty allows programmers to unchain themselves from the design process, a long standing dream of many. However, Smarty also has many advanced features that you may have been missing out on.

This article will demonstrate some of the more complex features in Smarty such as security features, template caching, and extending Smarty with wrapper classes. This article will show HTML designers how to extend their templates with configuration files and built-in data manipulation functions.

p. The theoretical web development process is that: first the
designer makes the interface, and breaks it down into HTML pieces for the programmer then the programmer implements the PHP business logic into the HTML.

p. That’s fine in theory, but in practice, from my experience, the client frequently comes with more requirements, or maybe more modifications to the design or to the business logic. When this happens, the HTML is modified (or words rebuilt ) programmer changes the code inside HTML.

p. The problem with this scenario is that the programmer needs to
be on stand-by until the designer completes the layout and the HTML files. Another problem is that if there is a major design change then the programmer will change the code to fit in the new page. And that’s why I recommend Smarty. Smarty is a templating engine for PHP.