1
Smarty is a great templating idea as it abstracts and separates content and presentation. The only problem is that there is not one IDE to support this. You are developing the presentation layer with your eyes close. For example <{$xoops_imageurl}>. Anyone know of "any" tool that can visually represent that reference so you can see how your presentation layer looks like? Also, <{include file =...}>. I see that everywhere and when you bring it into a WYSIWYG editor you are better off looking at it in notepad. Yeah I know, you can "temporarily" use the abosulte reference. But what's the point? That's just more tedious work prone for errors. So how does that make smarty a productive paradigm in terms of the presentation department?
