First Entry: What is tag-Engine?

Welcome to the home blog of the PHP template system, tag-Engine. Tag-Engine is a new kind of template system that gives more power to the artists that use template systems to draw and derive content on the frontend of generic content management systems.

The objective of tag-Engine is to solve the problems of current template systems such as flexibility, power and speed. Anyone who has had to deal with a template system from any of the major forum scripts or open source CMSs such as Joomla and Drupal know that it can be a huge hassle to figure them out and access specific content on certain pages.

Many template systems are based on the idea of including modules that output content and then you can edit the template that the module prints to. The problem is that the modules don't always print them out in the format you want and sites often look the same because it's too difficult to edit the output.

What tag-Engine does is give you the funcionality for formatting content and brings simple yet powerful database abstraction tools to the presentation layer so that you can access content wherever you want and present it however you'd like.

The estimated time of arrival for tag-Engine is summer 2006. It will be open source and free for non-commercial use.


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