Question About Xenforo templating system

[Carl Joseph Markham]

I have noticed, from a few posts, that xenforo uses custom html tags in its code. Like <xen:sidebar>. my question is how is this done? how does the script interpret this?

 

[Paul B]

Moved to pre-sales.

 

[Tah Zonemaster]

Well, I don't know but I think it's smarty
http://www.smarty.net/

 

[Nasr]

It's not smarty. xenForo uses its own templating system.

 

[James]

XenForo uses its own custom templating system that interprets XenForo syntax and converts it to PHP/HTML when the template is compiled.