Combine CodeIgniter with Smarty

[eluser]Rick Jolly[/eluser]
[quote author="Edemilson Lima" date="1200936228"]...does it have two cache folders? One for PHP compiled files and another one for rendered HTML files?[/quote]
Exactly. Since caching is optional, the cache folder is optional.

[quote author="Edemilson Lima" date="1200936228"]
...in any case, is better to write a view with pure PHP than write a template that will be parsed and then executed to produce the content cache. You will always gain performance if you cut off one step. Don't you? And also you will save a lot of server memory if you don't load a huge unnecessary library. Isn't that true?[/quote]
Well, remember that the template is only parsed/compiled once. But it is true that in all cases the main Smarty class file is loaded causing a small performance hit and using some memory. I think that is the only argument against Smarty that holds water. But to say it's better to use php for the template isn't always true. Besides the small performance difference, there are other things to consider.