Smarty vs Zend Studio, etc.

[geosite]

Someone suggested I check out Smarty, so I did - and was promptly blown away. It looks like a person could spend a day just installing it, and I'm not absolutely certain what it does. It sounds like it's basically used for debugging PHP code, like Zend Studio. I just wondered what people on these forums recommend for PHP software.

Can you suggest some other programs I can check out, preferably freeware?

Thanks.

[yjanse]

Well, I use Zend Studio myself, but have used phpEdit, from http://www.phpedit.net/

[yjanse]

By the way, is Smarty an editor? I thought it was a templating engine only.

[Widow Maker]

Just a plain common garden templating engine but it works with most if not all WYSIWYG editors, including DW

It sounds like it's basically used for debugging PHP code, like Zend Studio.

That's original, that is

[M. Johansson]

Like Widow Maker says, it's a templating system.