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You may not be familiar with what Smarty is. But Smarty is really an old familiar friend we know from PHP. It is a web template system written in PHP.

Smarty separates PHP code (often represented as business logic) from HTML (often represented as presentation logic).

Smarty is known as a "Template Engine". However, a more accurate description would be that it acts as a "Template/Presentation Framework."

It provides the programmer and template designer with a wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application.

It must be emphasized as to what it does as a Framework to template because Smarty is not a simple tag-replacing template engine.

It is possible to use Smarty for such a simple purpose, but its main focus is on quick and easy development and deployment of an application, while maintaining high-performance, scalability, security, and potential for future growth.

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More information on Smarty can be found at www.smarty.net