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Originally Posted by StinkyPink
The ones (current customers) that will benefit from this the most, is those (like me) that have been left to use the default smarty templates and make only minor changes due to smarty not being that easy for those not familiar with it... if your site already works as you like, then this upgrade will effect you less... that is until you are ready to upgrade your sites at which time you will have to edit the templates same as you did before. Myself, I am not worried as I made minimal changes, due to that being my easiest and cheapest option. Now... I can edit php and create the members areas the way I originally intended.
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Bingo. I couldn't have said it better.
We have customers still doing major internal development using Smarty even though they had plenty of advance notice that PHP templates were in the works.
There's nothing wrong with Smarty in that regard. The benefits to using the PHP templates (or dealing with the work of migrating a custom Smart site to them) is that they have updated features in addition to being easier to work with. Also, this is the base we'll be developing on now so all the new features we have planned will only be added to the PHP templates.
AJ