Templates

[eluser]IvanBernat[/eluser]
Hi guys!

I'm a total newbie to CI, coming from Symfony and CakePHP.

I decided to build my next site with CI, so I have a few questions:

1) The Template Parser: I want to enable my users to upload their own templates. Can standard PHP be processed from the templates, or only the {} variables get processed? I'm really hoping you'll say "NO, PHP can't be run from templates" as it can be a real pain from a security aspect (allowing users to upload files with potential malicious code).

2) Functions within templates: Anyone managed to modify the Template Parser class to enable "template functions"? E.g. if {me} is a variable, something like {fn do_something "parameter1" "parameter2"}

3) How do you go about caching templates?


Thanks upfront for your help guys!