PHP: Smarty Template Engine's Limits

Today i was going to try rather boring recursion (like you need for i.e. a web-filebrowser) for my WIP-CMS called cobaltWeb.
Since I use Smarty for quite everything, i found out that a major pain in the arse is its incapability of handling arrays of indefinite depth, or recursion in general. There seem to be some hacks for smarty right now, but reviews say its lame as a duck can be.

Since I have no idea how to build my data, I will have to go for an ugly php-script. Yikes, php will never be a really good platform...

Gloomph - A growing adventure

Since I started writing "Gloomph" (working title), a space adventure novel, I haven't contrived to write more than 15-20 pages. I think this blog is a good place to publish the stuff and keep on writing...I will update this topic with a link and keep readers informed about changes...

gamedevelopment made its way to my hometown

after five years of taking a great interest in game development, but being limited by my own unwillingness to move away, i have found out that there's 2 local game-programming crews.

> www.silentfuture.de
> www.silentdreams.de

i'm happy to see things developing this way. i hope to be able to resume graphical work soon (after moving to my new appartment of choice), so that i can offer myself as freelance helper.

watching out for .NET

my departure from good old php has been overdue. Working for nearly 5 years with just one technology is like a palsy, just worse, because you could have done something else meanwhile.

After investigating for a while, i pick ASP.NET and C# as my new matter of learning, and hopefully find the time to create some interesting stuff with it.

finally a direction that leads me to system-close programming...

what is a 'blerk'?

What a nifty thing, such a blog... So I can post my nonsense more frequently and more...just more. So, I flap up the first page of this wonderful, free, database-driven notepad of mine...

Yerssss....