[ucheokeke]

Thanks, I'll consider using Smarty. How about running background processes? What's the accepted way to implement them?

[pan69]

I don't think you can. PHP doesn't really run in a server like Java and .NET do. Zend does have a Server product (http://www.zend.com/en/products/server), I never tried it but it might offer background processes. I normally just use cron to trigger a url.

[thwarted]

Or you can use cron to run a script written in PHP.