an HTML_Template_IT[X] fork is available

Greetings! Several months ago I wrote to this list proposing my private fork of these template classes for merging: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=103242445816080&w=2 Well, at that time the fork had some problems: 1) It was one file instead of IT.php/ITX.php 2) The comments were in Russian 3) Callback functions were not implemented. This time I am back with a drop-in replacement for PEAR's HTML_Template_IT[X]. As the development of IT[X] is effectivelly stalled and its current maintainer wasn't interested in new features back then (see the archives), I propose replacing the current code in PEAR repository with my work. I am also willing to become its developer (or a maintainer, if the current one resigns). I must point out that making a patch against current sources was impractical, as the classes are almost completely rewritten. The classes are available for review: http://158.250.10.119/pear/IT.phps http://158.250.10.119/pear/ITX.phps http://158.250.10.119/pear/ITMod.phps (my original work, don't bother if you don't read Russian) They also can be dowloaded with a readme file describing new features/incompatibilities from http://158.250.10.119/pear/IT[X]-fork.tar.gz here is the part of this readme: ------------------ HTML_Template_IT 1) New features and improvements: a) Transparent caching of prepared templates. You just have to pass a second parameter to the constructor: a directory name (the directory should be writable for PHP). After the template gets parsed for blocks and variables, the resultant arrays are serialized and saved into files in this directory. The next time the template file needs to be loaded, the prepared one is loaded instead, with a cheap unserialize() instead of very expensive RegExp matching logic. b) Global variables. Variables set by a function setGlobalVariable() do not get cleared after first substitution, unlike ordinary ones, and do not trigger "block not empty" logic (block with only global variables is still considered "empty"). Can be used for directory prefixes, session identifiers and the stuff like that. c) hideBlock(): an opposite of touchBlock(). It prevents block from appearing in the result even if it is "not empty". d) The source was cleaned, PEARified and optimised. Inline docs were updated 2) Removed features and incompatibilities: a) $flagCacheTemplatefile and related logic was dropped in favor of a more generic approach, see (1.a) b) $clearCache and $clearCacheOnParse were removed (now the engine works as if they are always false) c) Public functions init() and free() are removed, they were unusable unless called from setTemplate() anyway... d) Using <!-- INCLUDE something --> in template is no more possible. If one needs unconditional include, he should consider joining the templates into single file, if one needs something more useful, he should use ITX with its addBlockfile() method. HTML_Template_ITX 3) New features and improvements: a) Transparent caching (1.a) also works for addBlockfile() and replaceBlockfile() b) Error handling war PEARified. It was completely broken in stock version as it relied on class IT_Error from file IT_Error.php which never got included... c) Cleanups. 2) Removed features and incompatibilities: a) Public functions getFunctioncalls(), setFunctioncontent(), setCallbackFuntiontable() (sic!), getBlocklist(), getBlockvariables(), BlockvariableExists() were removed. b) replaceBlock() implementation is somewhat different from stock version. c) Callback functions and caching do not mix. If you pass a second parameter to the constructor, the template WILL NOT be parsed for function calls. If you attempt to call setCallbackFunction() of performCallback() afterwards, an error will be thrown. ------------------