John Coggeshall has his own look today at the past php|tropics conference, including the slides from his Smarty presentation.

Well yesterday was the last day of this year's php|tropics conference in Cancun. I've been to a lot of conferences, and I'm happy to say that once again php|architect has put on a great one. There were killer talks given by my fellow core contributors and friends, there was absolutely amazing service, and most of all I think it's safe to say everyone had a great time. My contribution to the conference consisted of three talks (OOP in PHP 5, Migrating from PHP 4->5, and Programming Smarty) and making sure that the free PHP Certification went smoothly. In total I think around half the conference attendees stepped up to get certified -- you all should find out in the next few weeks how you did so good luck.

The slides can be found here as well as the code here...