Colin Calnan.com

Having been developing in Smarty for a few years now I was really excited to hear about a Smarty extension for Dreamweaver. I thought all my worries were over, I had a vision of a Smarty item toolbar, with options to insert Sections, If/Else conditions and other niceties. This was not to be and the extension that I downloaded was for visual purposes only.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still a wonderful addition to Dreamweaver and really helps put the pages you are working on in context of the surrounding includes. It can be a little frustrating however when you click in the Design pane of Dreamweaver to change something only to find it’s in a different template to the one you’re working on.

If anyone out there has experience with other Smarty extensions, please let me know.