Lightweight PHP5 based template class/system

Question

Looking at using a template system for a new project, it\'s only a small site and don\'t want to use the overhead and \'complexity\' of smarty. I don\'t really like template

Answer 1

I believe the PHP itself is a very powerful template engine.

If you just need a very simple template engine, you can wrap a str_replace(), for example:

function template($source, array $vars, $return=false) {
    foreach ($vars as $key=>$value) {
        $source = str_replace('{'.$key.'}', $value, $source);
    }
    if ($return) {
        return $source;
    } else {
        echo $source;
    }
}

And there is a simple yet flexible template engine from symfony if you need a full featured solution.