getStatic

Hey guys, So, I was working on my framework today, and noticed unfortunately that PHP does not allow using the magic method __get for static variables. There is a patch available, but I'm not sure how long it will be before it makes it into the stable PHP release. Anyway, my question is about what route I should take now. The reason I was looking for this was for the built in template engine. I expected to be able to put in a page {HTML::$variable1} or {self::$variable1} and have it evaluate using native PHP variables, instead of doing a large number of PHP str_replace for text based variables, a process which is surely slower. As I see it, my options are: Create public static function get($fpName) And have my templates littered with the extra {HTML::get(variable1)} OR use PHP str_replace based variable parsing creating what I imagine would be a significantly higher overhead. What would you do? - Craige