as I said ... "About the 3-D-array and patTemplate: it also depends on your PHP code.".So yes, you are right. I thought that Smarty maybe has something to tackle it, dunno. I don't know Smarty besides some examples. I haven't seen a templating engine at work that does the formatting in cols in a convenient way.

Only diff between patTemplate and PHPTal is that PHPTal requires to create another array apparently, so there is a bit of overhead. But there are worse things than that :)


About my PHPTal solution: I'm not that pleased with the tal:blocks and conditions. It looks a bit awkard. but it's probably a matter of getting used to it;