A step-by-step guide to building PHP web sites and applications using the Smarty template engine Bringing the benefits of Smarty to your PHP programming Give your designers the power to alter the content and layout without PHP programming Produce code that is easier to debug, maintain, and modify Useful for developers and users Smarty In Detail Smarty is a template engine for PHP. This will help you to: Install and configure Smarty on your Web server Understand how Smarty affects your web site architecture, and build the foundation of a site that make the most of what Smarty offers Designers will learn to work with templates that contain variables and logic, to change the layout or content of the Smarty web sites See how Smarty caching can improve the performance of your site Develop custom Smarty functions and plug-ins to incorporate into the template Approach Using step-by-step approach based on a realistic example, the expert authors show you how to use Smarty in your own PHP development. Who is this book written for? This book is written for PHP developers who want to use Smarty templates in their development, and for designers who work with PHP developers are using Smarty.