assigned variable namespace updates

I just committed to CVS some new changes to Smarty, most notably assigned template variables are no longer extracted into global (PHP) namespace. This extraction was extraneous and takes processing time, more for every assigned variable. As a test, I made a template with 1000 assigned variables. The execution time of this template was bettered by over 30%. As a consequence, there aren't issues with variable clashing in PHP namespace with assigned variables. We have to be careful with this, hopefully no one is using variables in a template that are not explicitly assigned. If you are, they won't show up anymore! Also, you can now embed variables in any quoted string, including modifier arguments. {include file="$template/foo.tpl"} {$foo|bar:"I am $name"} {$foo|bar:"I am \$name"} {* for literal value, escape with \ *} I unleashed it on our development CMS environment (good test for just about everything.) It all looks good initially, speed improvement is noticable! If you upgrade, do the usual: *) delete compiled templates *) delete cached files *) delete accelerator files *) restart apache Please help test if you can! Monte