Smarty and PEAR DB Posted October 8, 2004 at 12:00 am

As of approximately 9:30 PM this evening, the entire site is officially running on a combination of the Smarty template engine and the PEAR DB database abstraction layer. I expect productivity gains in the long term via cleaner, more portable code. I quickly found that Smarty is particularly effective at changing the way you think about scripting your pages. Thanks go to Titus for bringing Smarty and Pear to my attention.

In addition to the aforementioned changes, roughly half the site now feeds from a PostgreSQL backend rather than MySQL. The rest of the site will soon follow. I’ve planned the migration as a direct precursor to a comments system. Rejoice! (Or don’t.)

I picked up a couple tickets for the Cowboy Mouth concert at the Roxy Theatre on October 30th. Ticketmaster wanted an obscene 30% service charge online so I made a special trip to the Roxy’s box office this afternoon to save some money.