Hi

Smaty is another story. But there is also no need to be rude.

I beg to differ. The use of Smarty calls for all sorts of name calling.
Yes, it sells itself as the nonplusultra. But again, it doesn't contribute
anything useful. I would go so far and suggest MLF2 as a good example
against the use of Smarty.

[edit]: Two sentences about gettext: Gettext is not delivered as a standard library for PHP. What's about the questions of forum admins "Why the heck it don't work?"?

Doing it wrong then. There are at least two drop-in replacements for native
PHP gettext support (https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/). Just include a lib,
and support is there. Either native or emulated.
PhpWiki also has a very clever gettext variant __().

G