what I am doing right now

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Ok, I am in the process of retrofiitting oscommerce for use with smarty.  At least this way folks will be able to see what the #%$#$ I'm talking about :-)

This is going to happen in phases.  

Phase 1 will simply be a proof of concept, converting the existing site code into templates.  This way will have a lot in common with what is going on in oscommerce right now.  It's just showing that smarty can render the pages and gives a rough idea of what is going on.  This phase 1 portion will still have a lot of display code calculated by osCommerce.  In particular, most of the image and href bodies will be computed and sent to the template.

Phase 2 Identify the bits of osCommerce that do some display code and eliminate them, finding a reasonable way to do this with the templates.

Phase 3 Make the templates more structured and reorganize a bit of code and clean it all up.

All in all I should have something to be played with here in a couple of days.  In the end, I think this will be a real improvement to osCommerce (if it's adopted that is).