PHP Project - CodeIgniter Plus Smarty
Templating is a controversial topic with some developers since they feel that using PHP directly in the HTML is easier than learning a new templating language to accomplish the same thing. I personally like having a clean separation between code (PHP) and views (templates using Smarty). I have seen too many developers get sloppy and start adding logic and even database calls in their HTML. This can quickly become a maintenance nightmare. I also like the fact that Smarty uses different delimiters {} from HTML <>. This makes spotting the Smarty tags easy. A simple example that illustrates this point is:
Using Smarty:
<title>{$title}</title>Using PHP:
<title><?php echo $title;?></title>Sample controller: welcome.php
class Welcome extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$data['title'] = 'Codeigniter Plus Smarty';
$data['content'] = 'This is sample Content';
$this->parser->parse('welcome',$data);
}
}
Sample usage: welcome.tpl
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{$title}</title>
</head>
<body>
{$content}
</body>
</html>Include other template like header, navigation bar or footer:
{include file="header.tpl"}
Thank you for your visit.
Download full package here: Codeigniter 3.x and Smarty 3.x
Link:
CodeIgniter Plus Smaty
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