Comments on: Smarty Templates… Get That Shit Out of My House http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/ The Ramblings of Eric Filson Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:27:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-674 admin Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:58:36 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-674 <blockquote> <a href="#comment-84" rel="nofollow"> <strong><em>Chris Gibson:</em></strong> </a> <p>Man, this is all so true. I found this post by Googling “smarty is complete shit” out of sheer frustration. It’s like working with a really crappy, limited version of PHP. The entire premise behind using Smarty is negated by a proper MVC framework, as you say.</p> <p>As for the idea that a designer would be able to work with the templating language…? Can you imagine? “Hey, Mr Designer, I’ve produced the templates for our site. Now, I just need you to make some changes. Can you just modify that foreach loop? The foreach loop. No, ‘for each’. It’s a loop. The one in curly braces. The things that look like brackets? Look, it’s really simply. If i = 1 and you increment i by 1, and i is less than 5… no… no… yes, you’re right, that does kinda sound like programming. I’ll do it myself”.</p> </blockquote> Best comment EVAR! Thanks for the laugh at the end of my work day :)


Chris Gibson:

Man, this is all so true. I found this post by Googling “smarty is complete shit” out of sheer frustration. It’s like working with a really crappy, limited version of PHP. The entire premise behind using Smarty is negated by a proper MVC framework, as you say.

As for the idea that a designer would be able to work with the templating language…? Can you imagine? “Hey, Mr Designer, I’ve produced the templates for our site. Now, I just need you to make some changes. Can you just modify that foreach loop? The foreach loop. No, ‘for each’. It’s a loop. The one in curly braces. The things that look like brackets? Look, it’s really simply. If i = 1 and you increment i by 1, and i is less than 5… no… no… yes, you’re right, that does kinda sound like programming. I’ll do it myself”.

Best comment EVAR! Thanks for the laugh at the end of my work day :)

]]> By: Zdrowie http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Zdrowie Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:54:32 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-575 I just book marked your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon.I enjoy reading your commentaries. I just book marked your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon.I enjoy reading your commentaries.

]]> By: Amy http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Amy Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:43:41 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-550 I couldn't agree more with every single word written in this post, emphasised even further by the completely necessary use of bad language. brilliant stuff. I couldn’t agree more with every single word written in this post, emphasised even further by the completely necessary use of bad language. brilliant stuff.

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]]> By: loveuu http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-243 loveuu Sat, 01 May 2010 14:22:05 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-243 I just sent this post to a bunch of my friends as I agree with most of what you’re saying here and the way you’ve presented it is awesome. I just sent this post to a bunch of my friends as I agree with most of what you’re saying here and the way you’ve presented it is awesome.

]]> By: Dave http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Dave Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:12:09 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-124 I started off writing a project with smarty, i wish i hadn't - what a fucking nightmare it is. One of the best blogging software (wordpress) uses... php for templating. PHP IS a templating language, smarty is a piece of shit. I started off writing a project with smarty, i wish i hadn’t – what a fucking nightmare it is. One of the best blogging software (wordpress) uses… php for templating. PHP IS a templating language, smarty is a piece of shit.

]]> By: Chris Gibson http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Chris Gibson Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:37:55 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-84 Man, this is all so true. I found this post by Googling "smarty is complete shit" out of sheer frustration. It's like working with a really crappy, limited version of PHP. The entire premise behind using Smarty is negated by a proper MVC framework, as you say. As for the idea that a designer would be able to work with the templating language...? Can you imagine? "Hey, Mr Designer, I've produced the templates for our site. Now, I just need you to make some changes. Can you just modify that foreach loop? The foreach loop. No, 'for each'. It's a loop. The one in curly braces. The things that look like brackets? Look, it's really simply. If i = 1 and you increment i by 1, and i is less than 5... no... no... yes, you're right, that does kinda sound like programming. I'll do it myself". Man, this is all so true. I found this post by Googling “smarty is complete shit” out of sheer frustration. It’s like working with a really crappy, limited version of PHP. The entire premise behind using Smarty is negated by a proper MVC framework, as you say.

As for the idea that a designer would be able to work with the templating language…? Can you imagine? “Hey, Mr Designer, I’ve produced the templates for our site. Now, I just need you to make some changes. Can you just modify that foreach loop? The foreach loop. No, ‘for each’. It’s a loop. The one in curly braces. The things that look like brackets? Look, it’s really simply. If i = 1 and you increment i by 1, and i is less than 5… no… no… yes, you’re right, that does kinda sound like programming. I’ll do it myself”.

]]> By: Shinu http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Shinu Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:15:55 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-54 You are not taking into consideration that the very first time you access a page it is saved directly into a cache folder in PHP format, this means that only the first time has to be parsed... You are not taking into consideration that the very first time you access a page it is saved directly into a cache folder in PHP format, this means that only the first time has to be parsed…

]]> By: Thierry http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Thierry Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:12:42 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-50 Lol ! I really tried to deal with smarty but it was no more than a stick in my wheels. Slowing down all my developments only because of this "We are using *achoo*uselessly indirect PHP*achoo* smarty language". No I mean, seriously, if you know your job you don't need smarty.... 'cause I mean, com on a connection to the Db in the view :') ..... They just made me waste precious time and almost made me believe though : Chapeau ! refreshing post :D Lol !

I really tried to deal with smarty but it was no more than a stick in my wheels.
Slowing down all my developments only because of this “We are using *achoo*uselessly indirect PHP*achoo* smarty language”.

No I mean, seriously, if you know your job you don’t need smarty…. ’cause I mean, com on a connection to the Db in the view :’) …..

They just made me waste precious time and almost made me believe though : Chapeau !

refreshing post :D

]]> By: smarty sucks ass http://blog.ericfilson.com/2009/12/smarty-templates-get-that-shit-out-of-my-house/comment-page-1/#comment-22 smarty sucks ass Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:56:11 +0000 http://blog.ericfilson.com/?p=64#comment-22 I couldn't agree more with every single word written in this post, emphasised even further by the completely necessary use of bad language. brilliant stuff. I couldn’t agree more with every single word written in this post, emphasised even further by the completely necessary use of bad language. brilliant stuff.

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