Smarty - Template language

Smarty is an open source template language created in 2006 by Monte Ohrt and Messju Mohr and Uwe Tews.

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Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns. Smarty is intended to simplify compartmentalization, allowing the front-end of a web page to change separately from its back-end. Read more on Wikipedia...

Smarty website
Smarty Wikipedia page
There are at least 31,402 Smarty repos on GitHub
Smarty first developed in http://groups.google.com/group/smarty-developers
file extensions for Smarty include tpl
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 14k users using Smarty in 17k repos on GitHub
Smarty appears in the TIOBE Index
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Smarty
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Smarty
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Smarty
smarty.net was registered in 2002
See also: (3 related languages)PHP, ISBN, Twig

Example from the web:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <title>{$title_text|escape}</title>
</head>

<body> {* This is a little comment that won't be visible in the HTML source *}
{$body_html}
</body> <!-- this is a little comment that will be seen in the HTML source -->
</html>

Example from Wikipedia:

define('SMARTY_DIR', 'smarty-2.6.22/');
require_once(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');

$smarty = new Smarty();
$smarty->template_dir = './templates/';
$smarty->compile_dir = './templates/compile/';

$smarty->assign('title_text', 'TITLE: This is the Smarty basic example ...');
$smarty->assign('body_html', '<p>BODY: This is the message set using assign()</p>');

$smarty->display('index.tpl');