I am not finished with copying methods out of template.php, but it will come - also data validation would not be a problem helpers inclusion happens in the Template::_render().
Also, there was a bug with error functions (as Controller::missingView) - on linux, calling $this->render('../errors/missingController'); rsulted in an error - beacouse apparently is_file() cannot work with '..'. I added a simple fix in Template::_getViewFn.
I've also made some cleanups. Will continue to work tonight.
git-svn-id: https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/trunk/cake@264 3807eeeb-6ff5-0310-8944-8be069107fe0