Smarty integration into the CodeIgniter framework

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A Little Background Information:
I\'ve been looking at a few PHP framework recently, and it came down to two. The Zend Framework or CodeIgniter.

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Answer 1

Slightly OT, hope you don't mind...

I'm a Zend Framework user and I think it's worth saying that the loose coupling means you don't need to include any files you're not actively using. Hopefully this negates your concern about unnecessary overhead.

With the layouts stuff added in a recent release of ZF, its templating is really hard to fault... and it's completely pluggable as Favio mentions. The more I use ZF, the more I like it; they do things the way I would do them!