According to this new post to his blog, Paul Jones has passed on the torch for his Savant templating system over to Brett Bieber, a member of the Savant community.

Due to time constraints, mostly because of my Solar framework project, I haven't been able to pay as much attention to Savant as I think it deserves, so I made the hard decision to put it up for adoption. Lucky for the Savant community, Brett Bieber (aka Salty Beagle) picked up on that call right away.

Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP that does not compile templates into PHP. It uses PHP itself as the engine to keep things simple.

Richard Thomas has gone back to a topic he talked about previously, benchmarking the Zend Framework, in a new post to his blog today.

So Zend Framework is now at 1.0.1, what did benchmarking find? The goal is to just output Hello World with the most basic set of files possible for each case.

His tests included several different methods:

• Plain HTML
• Pure PHP
• Two different Zend Framework versions (1.0.1, 0.2.0)
• Solar
• his own "Cyberlot Framework"

For each stats are included for things like total time taken, complete requests, time per request and transfer rate.

According to this new post on the KillerSoft blog, they've created a sub-channel for the Savant and Savant2 on the pearified.com site - savant.pearified.com.

In the first of what may become a series of "sub channels," I'm happy to announce that Paul M. Jones' excellent Savant2 and Savant3 packages are now available from the savant.pearified.com channel.

While the Savant packages have always been PEAR-installable, installing and upgrading Savant is now easier than ever.

Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP that doesn't compile the templates, but instead uses PHP for the templating language...