Hernani Cerqueira has posted a quick introduction to using XSLT (an XML-based markup for styling XML documents) as a templating engine for PHP. []
It's generally considered a good idea to separate the functional business logic of a Web application from its user interface. And a good template engine helps you achieve this separation with minimal fuss and muss. This article introduces Savant, a lightweight, OOP-compliant template engine with some unique features that offers an effective solution to the problem of controller-view separation. []
Padraic Brady’s latest blog explains his thinking on templates. He reviews the Smarty alternative “Template Lite” and talks about when he finds it useful. []
Here is a follow-up to the first part of the little tutorial Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework. I want to address some of the issues in the comments of the first part and add some further information on how to setup your application to use the Travello_View_Smarty class. Along the way you learn how to integrate classes of the eX Components. []
Inspired by this article I started to play around a bit to integrate the Smarty template engine into the Zend Framework. My ambition was to minimize the required code in the controller actions but stay close to the given Zend_View API. I also wanted to integrate the Smarty caching feature. Here is the code I came up with. []
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I’m not lazy. I just feel that it’s important to expend as little effort as necessary to accomplish any given goal. Less is more, smaller is better, and lite is good. With that in mind, let’s talk about Template Lite []

Zend Framework - Using Smarty as template engine

This is very interesting article. I am one of many smarty users, and this looks like a nice and easy way to do transition to Zend Framework.

Zend Framework – Using Smarty as template engine

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Introductions to the Zend Framework

Four days into the first preview of the Zend Framework and feedback is pouring in, further work is progressing, and another release is in the works. As you take your first steps of working with the Zend Framework, here are some of the first articles to help get you started. []