How to use the PEAR ITX templating system

This tutorial will explain and demonstrate how to use the ITX templating system from the PEAR collection of useful classes for PHP. As we go along, it'll show you some of the competitors, why the author didn't like them and why in the end he chooses to work with ITX in his own scripts. We will build a simple example script that will load and fill out the data out of a database. This script will use another PEAR component, a database abstraction layer. This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with PEAR's DB abstraction layer.