Sopily is a PHP Template Engine that is a good alternative of Smarty, it has following features:

• Use PHP syntax in template file, no template tags anymore.
• Execute template file directly, no compile anymore.
• Smarty methods include caching, assign, assign_by_ref, fetch, display and etc.
• Built-in Smarty's modifiers and functions with multiple syntax.
• Best performance.

It is easy and fast. Just try it.

Related link: 中文版介紹 http://dev.sopili.net/2009/04/sopily-php-template-engine.html

Demo

Main Script: index.php

$url='http://software.sopili.net/';
require_once('Sopily.class.php');
$sopily=new Sopily;
$sopily->template_dir="/home/www/sopily/demo";
$sopily->assign('url',$url);
$sopily->display('index_tpl.php');

Template: index_tpl.php

<? 
require('header_tpl.php');  //relative path, indicated by $sopily->template_dir
?>
<h1>Demo</h1>
url is <?=$url?> <br>
url with modifier <?=$_escape($url)?> <br>
url with multiple modifier: <?=sopily($url,Array('default'=>'http://www.sopili.net >_<|||','escape'))?> <br>
url with multiple modifier2: <?=sopily($url,'default','http://www.sopili.net')?> <br>
url with multiple modifier3: <?=$_escape($url)?> <br>
url with multiple modifier4: <?=$_escape($url,'html')?> <br>


<?
require('footer_tpl.php');  
?>

Benchmark

Get memory usage by memory_get_usage(). Get per requests time by apache benchmark. Scripts were modified from Demo file of Smarty.

Methods\template	Sopily	Template Lite	Smarty
Memory (compiled/normal)	707760	747496	992488
Memory (Force Compile)	707760	1345944	1952440
Memory (Cached)	251544	447688	584768
Time per request (Cached)	7.734	12.922	14.891
Time per request (compiled/normal)	37.118	48.438	46.719

The structure of Sopily is simple, so it is the fastest one.