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Originally Posted by Michael Morris

Rather than continuing bickering with them I'm branching off Joomla to allow templates to drive the content pages -- the vbulletin template engine in the case of vJoomla and the patTemplate engine in the case of my contract work (The only difference between these two is the line that calls the template).

Fine piece of work. I've been doing a fair amount of vB/Joomla integration and mod writing recently (for other people), and I'm even considering re-adopting Joomla for myself when vJoomla stablizes. I had exactly the same frustrations you did with the two template systems (and lack of support from BBpixel), only I didn't have the patience to do what you are doing!

My only concern is, as you say above, "I'm branching off Joomla". Are you literally working on core Joomla files, or is it plugin based? How likely are you to implement this in 1.5? Much as I like the look of what you are doing, i don't want to paint myself into a corner with an "old" version of Joomla I then can't upgrade. 1.5 seems to address a lot of the XSS vulnerabilities in Joomla, which were another large part of why I abandoned it in the first place.

-- hugh