Re: what I am doing right now

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[quote="pngwen"]In the end, I think this will be a real improvement to osCommerce (if it's adopted that is).[/quote]If this is your goal, I believe that it will help if you keep in mind that you are more likely to get osCommerce to support a Template Structure that can have Smarty bolted on as a contribution than to get them to integrate Smarty code into osCommerce.  Same goes for phpNuke, etc.  

[quote]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.[/quote]Actually, if I were doing this, I would look at how I could rewrite html_output.php to product Smarty compatible code.  Ideally, the result would be a drop in replacement for the existing html_output.php.  Again, this would be more maintainable as a contribution over time.

Have fun,
Matt