In what ways can preparing data in PHP before passing it to Smarty templates improve efficiency and reduce complexity in the application?
Preparing data in PHP before passing it to Smarty templates can improve efficiency and reduce complexity in the application by separating the logic from the presentation layer. This allows for cleaner and more maintainable code, as well as better performance since the data processing is done before rendering the template.
// Example of preparing data in PHP before passing it to Smarty templates
// Data processing
$data = [
'name' => 'John Doe',
'age' => 30,
'email' => 'johndoe@example.com'
];
// Assign data to Smarty template
$smarty->assign('user', $data);