Re: Contribution for PECL

> > No, the extension is 100% independent. It uses "Tuned Boyer-Moore" search to > > find text patterns in a template. > > why? chances are pretty likely that any system that is compiling your extension > would have flex and bison (which are required to compile php). flex and bison > also on the whole generate much faster code (well, flex is slightly slower, bison > is much faster.) I think something like flex or bison is too much for this particular task. A good searching algorythm tightly integrated with internal data presentation seemed to be the best soution for the problem. > Also, have you seen Smarty? http://smarty.php.net/ Yes, I've checked out the most part of known template engines before starting the project and during developing process. php_templates' synthax is very simple because it keeps Presentation level free of any kind of logic, leaving it for the Code (Business Logic) level of an application. I would call it a Classical approach to N-tier architecture. Smarty is a one of the best engines I've ever seen, but it has a totally different ideology of templating, and can not be compared with php_templates. Despite of the fact that it has too much code to be parsed for every request, and therefore needs something like ZendCache to be installed on the server for faster work, this is a one of "language inside of a language" projects. You still have to be a programmer to create Smarty's templates. This topic is being discussed continuously among web developers and can be considered as yet another never-ending ideological (religious?) war like "Linux vs. FreeBSD", "Intel vs. AMD", etc. I will gladly discuss this issue with you personally, but I'm afraid [pear-dev] is not the appropriate place for this kind of discussions.