Well apparently this is not a popular opinion around here but I actually like Smarty when the situation calls for it. In version 3 the "block" feature makes Sm

Well apparently this is not a popular opinion around here but I actually like Smarty when the situation calls for it. In version 3 the "block" feature makes Smarty templates somewhat similar to .NET "Master Pages". I personally like using Smarty as the View in an MVC pattern. I've even used it for email message templates. I have one reason for not using Smarty in my more recent work but it has nothing to do with my feelings about Smarty itself. Rather just that a lot of web apps lately have all of the view logic in the client. So the server rendering of the view is often just outputting mostly static HTML for the Javascript to use as it's starting point. So it's not that I dislike Smarty, it's just that there's barely any logic at all happening at that level so there's no need for it.