On phpRiot.com today, there's an interesting look at some "Other Uses for Smarty" - including managing emails set by your site.

Many people think of the Smarty Template Engine as a system for separating presentation from application logic. This is indeed true, but many people also only consider Smarty for outputting their web site HTML/XHTML. This brief article goes over other situations where Smarty may be useful in your PHP application.

First, we go over how Smarty can be used for managing emails that your site sends out, then we go over other situations where it may be useful to use Smarty.

Some of these "other situations" include the creation of RSS/XML feeds, building CSV files, making auto-generated SQL schemas, and PHP code templating...