Smarty (template engine)

This article is about a web template system. For other uses, see Smarty. For similarly named items, see Smarties (disambiguation).
Smarty
Developer(s)Monte Ohrt, Messju Mohr, Uwe Tews
Stable release
5.4.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 29 August 2024; 2 months ago (29 August 2024)
Repository
Written inPHP
TypeTemplate Engine
LicenseLGPL
Websitewww.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.

  1. ^ "Release 5.4.1". 29 August 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  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.