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Smarty Php Template Programming And Applications

Format: Paperback
Author: Hasin Hayder
ReleaseDate: 30 March, 2006
Publisher: Packt Publishing
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Great guide to PHP & Smarty
This book takes you through every feature that Smarty offers in an easy-to-understand and practical way, with plenty of clear and concise examples to make it even easier to understand. If you're looking for a good book on Smarty, this one should definitely be on your list.

It doesn't matter if you're a developer who wants to start using Smarty or if you're a designer who has to start working with Smarty, this book is a great resource for both and thanks to a clear division in the book it's easy to learn about Smarty as a developer or designer.

There aren't many negative things to say about this book, but it isn't perfect either. Sometimes things are explained multiple times, with might cause some slight annoyance, and in some cases parts of an example aren't explained at all, which leaves you wondering what something is used for.

To sum it all up, this book is certainly worth the money, and I can definitely recommend it if you're looking to get started with Smarty.

Smarty
The title is just as short and simple as the book itself. Smarty. The first few chapters cover why you would want to use Smarty. This has always been the biggest slowdown of Smarty adoption: why use a template language? Isn't PHP already a template language? Isn't Smarty slow? What does the workflow look like? All of these questions are covered in these first few chapters. (The speed of Smarty is covered at the end in more detail, too. )

After that, the rest of the book covers the actual Smarty template language. There are two main sections that teach the reader: one section for template designers and one for programmers -- just like how the Smarty homepage is set up. Basically, each section covers the exact same material that's on the Smarty homepage, only in a more logical progression. Rather than a standard reference-manual format, these sections are laid out with several real-word projects and examples.

If you're new to Smarty, or have thought about learning it, I would definitely buy this book. However, if you're already familiar with the language, you really won't gain anything new here -- except printed documentation, which is always nice. Overall, Smarty is a great book for beginners.

Unfortunately there is nothing else!
I have used ASP. I am new to PHP and templating technology.NET and ASP, but have started doing some work with LAMP, so I figured I would try to make my work easier with Smarty.
I did a quick search for Smarty here on Amazon and could only find one book on Smarty, so I bought it, the E version anyway. After reading a few pages I found that I could not stand the way the author writes.
I have read quite a bit of technical books, this definately rates among the worst I have read. The author fails to make his subject interesting. I understand this is not a novel, but still, I believe that technical writers, above all, need to make the subject interesting. .