Smarty

$_FILES is really just part of $_POST.

As I said earlier, there is a (strong) sentiment that the view should not have access to data that has not been processed by the application (ie: raw data). I ...

Sure there's stuff behind the scenes in the app, but templates are definitely involved in deciding what's displayed. e.g.

{obj->getUser assign='user' id=$smarty.cookies.userID}
{ ...

Sure:

{if $smarty.files.upload.error}
{$smarty.files.upload.error}
{else}
File {$files.upload.name}
Size {$files.upload.size}
Type {$file ...

$_FILES most certainly isn't info the templates should be accessing directly
Why not? I was coding some file upload pages and put this on the second page:

File {$files.upload.name}
Size {$files.u ...

I understand that line of thought, but I think it should be all or none for consistency's sake (personally, I'm in favor of all - just for convenience).

Why isn't $_FILES included in $smarty (i.e. $smarty.files)?

Have you devs been able to distill a list of key features/changes for Smarty 3?

Any idea of when it might be available?

Not possible?

Not possible?

Say you have componentized templates:

<html>
<head>
<title>{$pageTitle}</title>
</head>
<body>

{if $smarty.request.view=='page'&# ...

Can an object method be used for the name param? e.g.

{insert name=obj->header content="Content-Type: text/html"}

Any plans to support function dereferencing?

I figured a way to avoid the 32000 directory entry limit problem:

$cache_key="item|".implode('|', str_split((int)$_GET['id'], 4));

Is it possible to cache part of a page? I have tens of thousands of pages, all of which display the same menu which uses several database calls to construct. I'd like to cache this menu for an hour.
...

Uh, do you have numbers and proof? Concrete and non-superficial? Let's see it.