Has anyone used patTemplate and should I be concerned to work on a project using it?

Question

I'm quoting on a project that is using patTemplate. I'm wondering if anyone has used it and what they think of it?

I'm not a fan of PHP templating systems because PHP is basically a templating system itself, but wondering how bad patTemplate is.

Answer 1

Here are my experiences:

1. Bad documented project
2. Looks very inactive for now
3. Oversized files
4. Unnecessary includes

IMO use any other template system like Smarty which is also used by Zend Framework or write your own as I do.

Answer 2

Back in the template-wars days, patTemplate was one of the real contestants. I don't think it sees much use today, but it's probably fairly stable and feature complete. I wouldn't pick it as first choice, but I don't think it's worse than anything else. The most prominent feature of patTemplate (If I recall correctly), is that it's xml-based, although I'm unsure about what benefit that gives.