Well I only really know Smarty, and everyone tends to say that it is bloated. I came across Template Lite. Has anyone tried it? How is it? Can anyone recommend any other template engines?
Hmm, not sure about specifically template systems since I have been using full blown frameworks for my projects now for a while, and they come with their own template engines. Personally, I'm partial to CodeIgniter.
Here is a reasonable discussion comparing smarty and template lite template lite is a drop in replacement for smarty which has it's advantages if you have created a site using smarty and are now concerned about load. Other alternatives include a few pear packages http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Flexy http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_IT http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_PHPLIB http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Sigma http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Xipe and dozens of other scripts dotted about the internet
hmm okay, well a somewhat related question... Is there some easy method to include/"parse" a PHP file and limit the variables it has access to, functions it can't use, etc?