I agree with this. user_profile seems to have a bunch of unnecessary fields, and having the fields in a separate table would make it more dynamic as well.

And as for Smarty, it's an evil, slow piece of crap, and it is really unnecessary anyway. We've been working on removing this on our high-perforamnce web site at work and we just finally got rid of it all for the frontend.

Not that my UBB.threads forum really needs these changes, since it's nowhere near that size. Still would be nice though, it's always good to use less resources.


aka Olle Johansson