Smarty (template engine)
| Smarty | |
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| Developers | Monte Ohrt, Messju Mohr, Uwe Tews |
| Release | 2000 |
| Stable release | 5.8.4 
/ 29 June 2026 |
| Written in | PHP |
| Type | Template Engine |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns, and 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.