New Book on Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications Published

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that the first book written on the Smarty PHP templating engine has been published. "Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications" has been 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.

(PRWEB) May 2, 2006 -- Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that the first book written on the Smarty PHP templating engine has been published. “Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications” has been 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.

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. Whilst the designers design, programmers can work with the underlying PHP code, safe in the knowledge that no matter how much the designers play with the templates, they will never break the code. The beauty of the Smarty templating engine is that the code will always stay intact.

Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of using Smarty. Readers will learn how to:

• Install and configure Smarty on their Web server

• Understand how Smarty affects their website 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 websites

• See how Smarty caching can improve the performance of their sites

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

Using a step-by-step approach based on realistic examples, the expert authors clearly guide readers on how to use Smarty in their own PHP development.

As part of their Open Source Royalty Program, Packt Publishing are paying a percentage of all sales directly to the Smarty open source project.

For more information on Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications, please visit: www.PacktPub.com/smarty/book

About Packt

Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike.

Packt's books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies they’re using to get the job done.

Packt believes in Open Source. When they sell a book written on an Open Source project, they pay a royalty directly to that project. As a result of purchasing ‘Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications’, Packt will have given some of the money received to the Smarty open source project.

For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com

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