Announcement: Smarty template engine 2.0 available

Smarty 2.0 is out! The most notable new things: *) Smarty has been rewritten with an underlying plugin architecture, so adding functions, modifiers, compiler functions, prefilters, postfilters, resources, and insert functions is as easy as dropping a file into the plugin directory. *) Performance, performance, performance! The benchmark page shows the huge steps Smarty has made in performance, as well as comparisons to other well known template engines. *) Completely reorganized documentation, available in HTML and PDF. *) Smarty no longer depends on PEAR. http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/ http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/docs/ http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/benchmarks/ http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/downloads/ Version 2.0.0 ------------- - added "eval" function plugin for evaluating variables as templates. (Monte) - removed $tpl_file_ext class variable, no longer used. (Monte) - added "hex" and "hexentity" escape types to escape modifier. (Monte) - removed dependency on PEAR. (Andrei) - update popup_init to accept src attribute. (Monte, Duncan Forrest) - implemented several optimizations, speeding up Smarty significantly in most cases. (Andrei,Monte) - implemented plugin architecture. (Andrei) - added wordwrap and indent modifiers. (Monte) - added support for 'If-Modified-Since' headers for cached content. (Monte) - removed insert_tag_check class variable, no longer needed. (Monte) - optimized cache fetches by scanning for insert tags only if they exist. (Monte) - fixed bugs in overlib. (Monte, Duncan Forrest) - fixed a problem with compile_id usage. (Andrei) - fixed problem with using assigned vars with {include_php ...} filepath. (Monte) -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> Director of Technology, ispi Inc.