Smarty

Do note that xdebug itself is a big performance hog.
Instead of arguing to try and prove your case at any cost (while lokking more and more unconvincing at each iteration), try different approaches t ...

No, I understand perfectly.
But you did not provide any numbers to back your claim of "expensive".
That's because "expensive" is relative. In my current situation a typical " ...

It is not a very good idea to allow template access random data in your code.
It greatly diminishing the application security.
I suggest you reconsider your approach. Caching may help better, than s ...

I'm using Smarty with multiple template files to generate user-defined pages. These template files may use any of a large number of variables (several hundred to over a thousand, depending on the comp ...

I'm currently using `clone` to make copies of a Smarty instance to render multiple templates roughly as such:

function getSmarty() {
static $smarty = null;

if (!$smarty) ...

Thanks for the inheritance suggestion, I would have never thought of inheritance this way.

But instead I discovered prefilters in combination with the template_id, which seem to do the job and is i ...

I'd like to combine Smarty templates and separate translation files. But I'd like the translation files to include Smarty syntax itself as well.

For example a fragment of a template:
<div id=&q ...