Smarty (template engine)

Smarty
Smarty
Developer(s)	Monte Ohrt, Messju Mohr, Uwe Tews
Stable release	5.5.1 / 19 May 2025
Repository	github.com/smarty-php/smarty ;
Written in	PHP
Type	Template Engine
License	LGPL
Website	www.smarty.net

Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns.^[2] Smarty is intended to simplify compartmentalization, allowing the front-end of a web page to change separately from its back-end. Ideally, this lowers costs and minimizes the efforts associated with software maintenance.

Smarty generates web content through the placement of special Smarty tags within a document. These tags are processed and substituted with other code. Tags are directives for Smarty that are enclosed by template delimiters. These directives can be variables, denoted by a dollar sign ($), functions, logical or loop statements. Smarty allows PHP programmers to define custom functions that can be accessed using Smarty tags.

^ "Release 5.5.1". 19 May 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
^ Parr, Terence John (2004). Enforcing strict model-view separation in template engines. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web. ISBN 1-58113-844-X.

[wikidata-54138b159bb5ffc0c4dd4f46a4990a7673b00f9b-v18-1] "Release 5.5.1". 19 May 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.

[Parr000-2] Parr, Terence John (2004). Enforcing strict model-view separation in template engines. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web. ISBN 1-58113-844-X.

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