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Have you seen Prado framework? see http://www.xisc.com/

What is Prado?
It is event driven system and composed of lots of components
I think if you understand the inside of Prado, building program is really easy.
And component can be reusable and extensible because it is coded in class.
IMHO, it is best framework in php.

What is the problem?
The problem is the speed. Their template system uses the same method
like FastTemplate i.e read in the template file and replace and
dump html code to the client.
There is no compiled template and caching is done for the variables only.

Another problem is me. After learning Smarty, I tried to convert other
template systems to Smarty. Without Smarty, it's not perfect. Am I sick?

Their template uses almost same format as Smarty
In Prado
<com:TButton ID="button_1" Name="me" OnClick="ClickMe" />

I think we can replace the components in Prado to plugins in Smarty.
Problem is that they construct javascript DOM like tree of components
and trigger some actions repeatly through parent to son compenents.
These actions are onInit, onLoad, onPreRender etc. So If we convert
to Smarty plugins, we have to include this repeated triggered
actions in the plugins.

But my depth of Smarty is not enough to do this thing.
When I scan this forum, you are expert on Smarty and I think Smarty
and Prado can be best framework IMHO.