theming

Since my inception of sirkitree.net, my goal has been to have a site that showcases and keeps progress reports on the work I'm doing with Drupal and to be working progressively towards Drupal 6. I kept quite below the curve on 6 pre-beta and all of it's changes because I was still so focused on learning things for 5, but once the Betas started hitting the street, I broke down and started paying more attention, then started this site.

Recently there was a post on the [development] mailing list about dealing with _phptemplate_variables() and in order to get it all straight in my head, I thought it prudent to report on it here for my and your benefit.