Brandon Belew

So a few days ago I sat down and started messing with drupal again.   I took the rockford template from Gatehouse and drupalized it in little time.   

I spent quite a bit of time awhile back griping about drupal and theming, but when someone else does the design work it's actually quite easy.  

Like I said before,  I fail at design......

Now.. back to module developement - which wasn't too hard the first time I did it with drupal 5.  

So long long ago,  back when I was into the whole online gaming scene.   I got bored one weekend so a buddy of mine said,  why not start working on a league website similar to CAL ( www.caleague.com )..   So I thought, why not?   So I sat down and started working,  a day and a couple 12 packs of mountain dew later..  I had a working league website, with most of the features it took CAL several thousand dollars and years to complete.     

So i'm not the most active blogger!  Sew me!        

Here in the last couple weeks,  I have been digging deeper, and deeper into the wonder that is the Google API.    One of my first projects?   A generic search engine in use on 9 websites currently.   Utilizing Google Custom Business Search as well as Yahoo Web Search ,  PHP 5 and  a few cuss words...  the product:   http://search.morningsun.net        

In my earlier programming years,  when it came to logins they were... very weak.. very simple.. and at the same time very insecure. 

More recently,  I have been trying to learn more about PHP security and have been trying to refine my login scripts to be more secure.  

Why don't more PHP based applications use SMARTY? 

 I've been dabbling with PHP now for a couple years,  and have had more then one run in with SMARTY.    Actually,   all of my sites normally start off using SMARTY until I either get rushed to complete the site and revert to old tactics,  or have to settle with another templating system.  

Do developers just not like SMARTY?   Maybe they just don't know about it?