Smarty : Why Use Smarty: “Is Smarty right for me?
Although Smarty is known as a ‘Template Engine’, it would be more accurately described as a ‘Template/Presentation Framework.’ That is, it provides the programmer and template designer with a wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application. I stress the word Framework because Smarty is not a simple tag-replacing template engine. Although it can be used for such a simple purpose, its focus is on quick and painless development and deployment of your application, while maintaining high-performance, scalability, security and future growth. ”
