Background

XIRE was originally just a component of another project which at first used Smarty as the templating engine. Smarty set the standard for future PHP templating engines, but it has fundamental design issues i.e. it has yet another templating syntax, and it isn’t just a templating engine, but it is a framework complete with error handling, resource handling, output filters, etc. Which may have been needed in back in the PHP 3 days, but most of these features are now handled nicely by PHP 5 itself.

I repackaged XIRE as a stand-alone templating engine and released it under LGPL for anyone who may be interested. Any constructive feedback is welcomed.