Monte Ohrt : Concepted compiling templates into PHP scripts, wrote initial "proof of concept" implementation, and maintains documentation & code base. Andrei Zmievski : Rewrote parser from scratch, developed plugin architecture, and maintains code base. Anne Holz : Provided creative input with respect to web design. Frank Kromann : Idea of custom function ability. A special thanks goes to the people that have contributed other templating solutions to the PHP community which we learned a lot from. A special thanks goes to the members of the php-template mailing list and the smarty mailing list, too numerous to list, who are sharing and bringing many ideas to the table and contributing source code. Rasmus Lerdorf : For starting what eventually became the coolest programming language ever.