Why use a templating engine with a framework?

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I recently discovered the PHP framework Kohana (which is awesome) and was reading a thread about using it in conjunction with a templating engine such as Smarty or Twig. My ques

Answer 1

Mauris has already covered why MVC != template engine, but I would like to add that the more powerful the template engine is, the cleaner and more concise your templates are. This makes it especially easy for people who are not familiar with PHP to edit them (e.g.: if a designer/front end developer needs to edit the HTML). In general, MVC's don't boast this sort of functionality.

Take a look at this example from Smarty. I've never used the engine and answering this question is the first time that I've ever seen its markup, but I can already tell exactly what its doing.

Further, the amount of code that you have to write is noticeably less since Smarty and other engines take care of mundane things for you like alternate row colors and alternate content for empty data sets in the first example, and silly things like formatting lists in this example.

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