RE: Template System

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A lot of what it boils down to centers around how easy it is to intermingle static and dynamic output. In your top.php example Brenden it's all static content. Depending on how intermingled the dynamic data is with the static 'presentation' of the site/store, this approach could get somewhat cumbersome. Looks like you'd end up having to have some php logic in that file after all, which defeats the purpose of a template at least somewhat.

For me it's important what my graphics designers get to touch and what they don't. It makes me cringe to think of them loading any file with a .php extension and/or manipulating our code inside their graphical web editing software packages. I have no problem with them defining where on a detail page the picture of the item displays and the font size/shape and placement of the description text of it, I'd just prefer they do this _without_ messing with code at all!