Smarty Template Engine

[alexander1951]

Hi WB rooters,
I´m really impressed by Revive´s articles/posts. They are highly well-founded and express all I´m thinking about WB.

In 2007 I was searching for an easy to learn, easy to use WCMS and I nearly became desperate in not finding one. It took 1 year til I found WB (I believe it was the 17th CMS that I tried, Typo3, Joomla and others giants included). After some trials I couldn´t believe that it was so easy to create modern websites with a half-automatical CMS.

Since then I created 7 websites with WB (all are still running) and I´m highly happy with WB even though I have - of course - wishes for optimizing this CMS, like all other WB rooters.

So, my conclusion, it is enormously important to keep the core advantage of WB in its further development: easy to learn, easy to use, easy to create/fit own templates and so on. When Smarty will be an option, as Ryan told us, it´s okay. As far as all other coming features that may complicate WB.

As many other WB users I´m glad to have folks like Ryan and Matthias and all the other developers and assistants to WB. We love you all!

[Ryan]

Hi guys,

I just noticed this thread is a little out of date with my current situation. I don't think Smarty will be included in WB3 (now known as PlatformRAD), as it simply is no longer needed due to the basic easy-to-use design of the templating engine. To me, Smarty just added an extra memory footprint and no huge feature advantages. However, with that said, it is still possible to modify PlatformRAD in the future to support both the current inbuilt templating system and Smarty

Ryan

[Rahya]

YeahhhhhhhHH!!!! Thx, Smarty as an option is ok, but much better is - don't include it! 

[kweitzel]

@Rahya:

You are aware though, that Ryan does NOT talk about WebsiteBaker anymore, do you? Anyway, I close this thread now.

cheers

Klaus