[themes] shortcut for phptemplate variable printouts

[Vladimir Zlatanov]

> I have serious time issues for the month of july, and we  
> really are almost there.
We are in the profiling for performance stage. Unfortunately I'm
extremely busy as well, so I was unable to really work on this the last
couple of weeks.

> I'd be available to walk people through the code and get everyone up  
> to speed during this week. Anyone interested in helping getting the  
> theme system more usable,
> please let me know.
Please do. I'll try to help as much as I can as well.