From CodeWalkers this morning, there's a new article that steps you through using the PEAR ITX templating system on your site. ITX is the Integrated Template system and it's bigger brother Integrated Template eXtension are two of the scripts from the PEAR package.

He starts of the article with a brief history of where he's coming from and where PHP started off when he started working with web applications. Then, moving into different templating engines, he settles on IT/ITX, describing it as exactly the thing I was looking for. It had support for blocks and variables, some primitive support for calling PHP functions directly from the template (if you ever find yourself in need of that) and a very easy template syntax for my users.

It looks like a pretty cool templating system - easy to use, and parsing the templates and data "holders" on the fly for some fast load times. Templates like this can help separate your actual data more from the page itself, allowing you to move chunks of code around easily, especially in larger projects.