In reply to Mike Schinkel.

Good luck on the project! And, good points too.

There are those who say PHP is a proper templating engine. To which I generally agree.

I actually started this entire post off as a discussion about this but decided to go in a different direction as I continued diving into the piece. I tend to agree and have been one of those devs who has pushed back a bit against adopting any sort of templating engine. With that said, I have come around on the idea a bit more in the past couple of years on some projects. I do think it's worth evaluating while we're changing the template system around.