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Smarty project is a template engine for PHP. Many other template engines for PHP provide basic variable substitution and dynamic block functionality.
Smarty takes a step further to be a "smart" template engine, adding features such as configuration files, template functions, and variable modifiers, and making all of this functionality as easy as possible to use for both programmers and template designers.
Smarty also converts the templates into PHP scripts, eliminating the need to parse the templates on every invocation. This makes Smarty extremely scalable and managable for large application needs.
Main features:
- Caching: Smarty provides fine-grained caching features for caching all or parts of a rendered web page, or leaving parts uncached. Programmers can register template functions as cacheable or non-cachable, group cached pages into logical units for easier management, etc.
- Configuration Files: Smarty can assign variables pulled from configuration files. Template designers can maintain values common to several templates in one location without intervention from the programmer, and config variables can easily be shared between the programming and presentation portions of the application.
- Security: Templates do not contain PHP code. Therefore, a template designer is not unleashed with the full power of PHP, but only the subset of functionality made available to them from the programmer (application code.)
- Easy to Use and Maintain: Web page designers are not dealing with PHP code syntax, but instead an easy-to-use templating syntax not much different than plain HTML. The templates are a very close representation of the final output, dramatically shortening the design cycle.
- Variable Modifiers: The content of assigned variables can easily be adjusted at display-time with modifiers, such as displaying in all upper-case, html-escaped, formatting dates, truncating text blocks, adding spaces between characters, etc. Again, this is accomplished with no intervention from the programmer.
- Template Functions: Many functions are available to the template designer to handle tasks such as generating HTML code segments (dropdowns, tables, pop-ups, etc.), displaying content from other templates in-line, looping over arrays of content, formatting text for e-mail output, cycling though colors, etc.
- Filters: The programmer has complete control of template output and compiled template content with pre-filters, post-filters and output-filters.
- Resources: Templates can be pulled from any number of sources by creating new resource handlers, then using them in the templates.
- Plugins: Almost every aspect of Smarty is controlled through the use of plugins. They are generally as easy as dropping them into the plugin directory and then mentioning them in the template or using them in the application code. Many user-community contributions are also available. (See the plugins section of the forum and wiki.)
- Add-ons: Many user-community contributed Add-ons are available such as Pagination, Form Validation, Drop Down Menus, Calander Date Pickers, etc. These tools help speed up the development cycle, there is no need to re-invent the wheel or debug code that is already stable and ready for deployment. (see the Add-ons section of the forum and wiki.)
- Debugging: Smarty comes with a built-in debugging console so the template designer can see all of the assigned variables and the programmer can investigate template rendering speeds.
- Compiling: Smarty compiles templates into PHP code behind the scenes, eliminating run-time parsing of templates.
- Performance: Smarty performs extremely well, despite its vast feature set. Most of Smartys capabilities lie in plugins that are loaded on-demand. Smarty comes with numerous presentation tools, minimizing your application code and resulting in quicker, less error-prone application development/deployment. Smarty templates get compiled to PHP files internally (once), eliminating costly template file scans and leveraging the speed of PHP op-code accelerators.

Template Lite is a smaller, faster alternative to the Smarty template engine.
For the most part, it is a drop in replacement for Smarty but uses around half of the memory and is considerably faster and far less CPU intensive when compiling and displaying templates.
Template lite was originally created by Paul Lockaby as a smaller replacement for Smarty. The original package was called Smarty Light. Even though Smarty is an Open Source project the creators of Smarty decided to trademark the name Smarty. Because of this trademarking of the name they contacted Paul Lockaby and told him he could nolonger use Smarty in the name for the package.
Paul Lockaby gave me permission to fork the project if I wanted as he was closing down support and developement for Smarty Light. The initial release of Template Lite contains a few minor bug fixes and some extra features.
I plan on adding more features to Template Lite over the next few months. For the most part Template Lite is a drop in replacement for Smarty. The nice thing about this package is how it uses around half of the memory of Smarty and it is considerably FASTER and far less CPU intensive when compiling and displaying templates.
Enhancements:
- register_resource and unregister_resource support was added.
- Different resources are supported by everything except for cached template output.
- The _get_resource internal function was added for processing "file:" and absolute tag resources.
- The resize_image plugin was added.
- Support for absolute paths to template files was fixed.

SmartTemplate is a Template Engine that was designed to support large scale, web based applications.
Whats so special about it?
Common template engines work like the following: Your PHP script specifies an HTML template and assigns some dynamic content to display. The template parser replaces all placeholders within the template with the assigned content and displays it to the user. This means a lot of string processing and regular expression work each time you want to display some content.
SmartTemplate works like a template compiler that converts templates into executable PHP code and stores it for later reuse. The first time a new template is processed, all placeholders in the template are replaced by small PHP code elements that print the assigned content. The HTML template fragment < H3 >{TITLE}< /H3 >, for example, is converted into something like < H3 >< ?php echo $TITLE; ? >< /H3 >. If you have assigned your content to the right variables, there is no need for any template parsing anymore. The only thing that has to be done is to include and execute the compiled template. This usually increases the execution time of the template engine dramatically.
SmartTemplate supports:
- Simple Scalar Substitution (Strings, etc.)
- Block Iterations (nested Arrays / BEGIN..END)
- Basic Control Structures (IF..ELSEIF..ELSE)
- Custom Extension (Output filters, uppercase, sprintf, etc.)
- Template Compilation (HTML templates are converted to executable PHP Code)
- SubTemplate System (HTML templates can be included on other templates)
- Output Caching (Accelerates your applications by reusing page output)

Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled as a PHP module. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed into much more.
The project is based on extensible template controllers (custom view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in HTML).
Enhancements:
- Lot of code cleanup was done.
- The "parse" and "include" methods were improved, and their "vars" argument is not a globals array anymore; now its just an arbitrary iteration set and both methods comply with set/block/fetch.
- Templates included by the "include" method from PHP code inherit globals from the caller automatically.
- Corresponding tests were updated.
- A new article was added to the documentation: "Quick Geek Blitz Tutorial", which is addressed to those professionals who want to learn API basics in a minimum of time.

Template::Plugins is a Perl module with plugin provider.

SYNOPSIS

use Template::Plugins;

$plugin_provider = Template::Plugins->new(%options);

($plugin, $error) = $plugin_provider->fetch($name, @args);

The Template::Plugins module defines a provider class which can be used to load and instantiate Template Toolkit plugin modules.

HCKit::Template is a Perl module with a template system for HTML construction.

This module constructs an HTML page from a template. The conversion proceeds with the help of rewrite rules and data sources. Rewrite rules can be specified in the template file itself, or in the Perl script. Data sources can be XML files, or dynamically constructed in the Perl script.

Template::Simple is a simple and fast template module.

SYNOPSIS

use Template::Simple;

my $tmpl = Template::Simple->new();

my $template = Jan 1, 2008,
author => Me, myself and I,
},
row => [
{
first => row 1 value 1,
second => row 1 value 2,
},
{
first => row 2 value 1,
second => row 2 value 2,
},
],
footer_data => {
modified => Aug 31, 2006,
},
} ;

my $rendered = $tmpl->render( $template, $data ) ;

Template::Simple has these goals:

Support most common template operations

It can recursively include other templates, replace tokens (scalars), recursively render nested chunks of text and render lists. By using simple idioms you can get conditional renderings.
Complete isolation of template from program code

This is very important as template design can be done by different people than the program logic. It is rare that one person is well skilled in both template design and also programming.
Very simple template markup (only 4 markups)

The only markups are INCLUDE, START, END and token. See MARKUP for more.

Easy to follow rendering rules

Rendering of templates and chunks is driven from a data tree. The type of the data element used in an rendering controls how the rendering happens. The data element can be a scalar or scalar reference or an array, hash or code reference.

Efficient template rendering

Rendering is very simple and uses Perls regular expressions efficiently. Because the markup is so simple less processing is needed than many other templaters. Precompiling templates is not supported yet but that optimization is on the TODO list.

Easy user extensions

User code can be called during an rendering so you can do custom renderings and plugins. Closures can be used so the code can have its own private data for use in rendering its template chunk.

Template::Manual::Plugins is Perl module for standard plugins.
This section lists the standard plugins which can be used to extend the runtime functionality of the Template Toolkit. The plugins are distributed with the Template Toolkit but may required additional modules from CPAN.
TEMPLATE TOOLKIT PLUGINS
The following plugin modules are distributed with the Template Toolkit. Some of the plugins interface to external modules (detailed below) which should be downloaded from any CPAN site and installed before using the plugin.
Enhancements:
- Perl