Re: a question to HTML_Template_IT/ITX maintainers

Alexey Borzov wrote:

Greetings!

    Some time ago (when IT[X] was effectively not maintained) I borrowed it
    from PEAR and made some kind of private fork from it --- I liked
    its API and "ideology" very much.

    Now I have a class which is (mostly) API compatible with ITX but
    is alot cleaner, faster and well-tested in production environment.

    Advantages over ITX:
    * Transparent caching of parsed templates. I found out (the hard
    way) that findBlocks() call is VERY expensive.
    * faster parse(): fewer preg_replace() calls
    * Addition of "global" variables, hideBlock() method (an opposite
    of touchBlock())...

    Disadvantages:
    * One class instead of IT/ITX hierarchy
    * Callback functions are not supported
    * Comments and error messages are in Russian :]
    * Private API, variables and some subtle quirks are NOT compatible with ITX

    As the class is effectively a rewrite, it is impossible to provide
    simple patches for IT[X]. So a question: are you interested in merging my work
    into the existing ITX code?

Sounds cool! I'm using IT so i will be happy to look at your improvements. Cheers, Chief