Shoutbox

Hey,
A thread for the technically minded.

Im currently busy at work on my own blogging system (mainly as a method to learn), which I hope to release to the public in the not so far future. So far I have most of the major stuff covered.

However, the one thing which I haven't got (and numerous google searches have provided no glory either - probably wrong search terms), is all the page statistics, like you get at the bottom of alot of php scripts (it will be an option in the config). What code do I need to generate all the statistics, such as parse times, number of queries, etc?

Also, does anyone know of any really simple way to implement some kind of templating system? I would like to do this, so that it is easy for users to make their own templates, but so far all I have found is a load of stuff on special engines, and one tutorial on making your own engine - which I tried and just got pages of errors.

Thanks for your help.