Perhaps one of the handiest frameworks for PHP. Smarty allows designers to design, and programmers to program. Smarty allows you to not only create templates but also manipulate those templates with variable modifiers to handle tasks you would rather not waste time doing in your software. More so, it also enables you to cache the site, or just parts of the site for better performance. Mark will be going through many of the features of Smarty, and show demonstrations of much of its extended functionality. Don't forget to bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop too, because you will have the opportunity to program alongside Mark, testing what you learn during the presentation on a PHP server setup for the presentation!