advantage and disadvantage of smarty template [duplicate]

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Why should I use templating system in PHP?

I'm new to Smarty.

Why are people showing interest in this framework? What are the advantages of it? Also, a lot of people avoid templates, what is the reason?

What is the real reason people choose the Smarty templating system?

How much really smarty best for web development?

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IMHO the best way to use a template engine is using of regular HTML in .php files as a templates.

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This has been asked and discussed before in many shades, this is a link list to the most popular ones:

• Why should I use templating system in PHP?

• Smarty, the best choice?

• What’s the best way to separate PHP Code and HTML?

• Smarty benchmark, anyone?