Book on Smarty published

Kshipra Singh writes “Smarty is a templating engine for PHP. Designers who are used to working with HTML files can work with Smarty templates, which are HTML files with simple tags while programmers work with the underlying PHP code. The Smarty engine brings the code and templates together. The result of all this is that designers can concentrate on designing, programmers can concentrate on programming, and they don’t need to get in each others way so much.

Even if you are developing a site on your own, Smarty is a powerful way to make your code clearer to you and others, as well as easier to debug and modify later.

This book is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of using Smarty. It will help you to:

Install and configure Smarty on your Web server

Understand how Smarty affects your web site architecture, and build site foundations that make the most of what Smarty offers

Designers will learn to work with templates that contain variables and logic, to modify layouts or content of Smarty web sites

See how Smarty caching can improve the performance of your sites

Develop custom Smarty functions and plug-ins to incorporate into your templates

This book is written for PHP developers who want to use Smarty templates in their development, and for designers who are working with PHP developers who are using Smarty.

More details about the book are available at: http://www.packtpub.com/smarty/book

A sample chapter can be read at: http://www.packtpub.com/files/Smarty_SampleChapter .pdf“