Google Apps and PHP+Smarty

[mkn]

I admit this is pretty early the Google Apps PHP publication being just a few days old. I have had a look at what Google has to offer and it is pretty much, actually. There is a lot of good in the architeture and the scalability should be pretty incredible. The PHPClasses site, however, cast some shadows over the joy:

"PHP applications can read and write application files, like for instance configuration files and uploaded files. The data files are written to a cloud storage service using a special file stream handler.

However, it cannot use the require or include statements to execute script files created dynamically by the application. While this seems to be a nice security feature, it imposes limitations to many PHP applications.

For instance template engines that generate PHP scripts are not able to execute the scripts using include or require."

So it seems that we will be faced with problems compiling templates and including the compiled ones... or is it so? 

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