Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications: Packt is publishing a book about Smarty. Great news — Smarty is such a great library that it’s about time it’s handled in a book of its own (it’s so great, in fact, that it’s almost it’s own language…)
This book is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of using Smarty. It will help you to:
- Install and configure Smarty on your Web server
- Understand how Smarty affects your web site architecture, and build site foundations that make the most of what Smarty offers
- Designers will learn to work with templates that contain variables and logic, to modify layouts or content of Smarty web sites
- See how Smarty caching can improve the performance of your sites
- Develop custom Smarty functions and plug-ins to incorporate into your templates
I've been spending some time working with Smarty lately. This is ostensibly a "templating language" for PHP. But I think it goes beyond that. I assert that Smarty has become a sub-language all by itself. (Update: I thought of a much better name for this: "sand-boxed PHP." …