Beta of OXID eShop version 4.5.0 Coming Before Christmas

Hi everybody,

today, we published a new blog post: A beta version of OXID eShop 4.5.0 will still come before Christmas. Besides a newly designed store front, it will contain some interesting enhancements to the Smarty Template Engine (inheritance) and a module and template installer. Read more:
http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog/announcing-oxid-eshop-version-450-beta

Regards

[QUOTE=Marco Steinhaeuser;45525]Hi everybody,

today, we published a new blog post: A beta version of OXID eShop 4.5.0 will still come before Christmas. Besides a newly designed store front, it will contain some interesting enhancements to the Smarty Template Engine (inheritance) and a module and template installer. Read more:
http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog/announcing-oxid-eshop-version-450-beta

Regards[/QUOTE]
Hi, Marco.

Question regarding the new templating system:

Will the data handed over to the Templates be identical to the current template, and just the design/layout of the new template has changed?

Are the template names identical to the current system?

I very much hope it will be that way, because otherwise you can start from scratch… :eek:

Is support for old templates (version 2/3) removed at this version?

Hi,

@avenger: The older template system (now existing) will still be supported.

@Dominik: AFAIK we decided to ditch the support for the version 2/3 templates (get rid of depricated functions) with 4.5.0 a while ago on dev-general mailing list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general/365/

Regards