private function loadTemplates()
	{
		$di = new DirectoryIterator(TEMPLATES_PATH);

		foreach ($di as $location)
		{
			// skip all system files
			if (preg_match('/^(\.\w+|\.$|\.\.$)/i', $location) === 0)
			{
				// trim the x_ from x_folderName
				preg_match('/[0-9]+-(\S+)/', $location, $matches);
				$name = $matches[1];

				$path = TEMPLATES_PATH . '/' . $location . '/' . $name;

				$json = file_get_contents($path . '.json');
				$template = file_get_contents($path . '.php');

				$data = json_decode($json, true);

				$cachedCompiledFile = 'cache/compiled-' . $name . '.php';
				$cachedRenderedFile = 'cache/rendered-' . $name . '.html';

				if( $this->loadTemplatesFromCache && file_exists($cachedRenderedFile) )
				{
					$template = file_get_contents($cachedRenderedFile);
				}
				else
				{
					$compiledTemplate = LightnCandy::compile($template, Array(
						'flags' => LightnCandy::FLAG_HANDLEBARS,
						'helpers' => Array(
							'parse_paragraph' => function ($text) {
								return preg_replace('/(\n\n|\r|\r\n)/mi', '</p><p>', $text);
							},
							'parse_newlines' => function ($text) {
								return preg_replace('/(\r\n|\n|\r)/m', '<br>', $text);
							},
							'gettext' => function ($text) {
								return gettext($text[0]);
							},
							'svg' => function ($text) {
								return file_get_contents($text[0]);
							},
							'random_background_position' => function () {
								$pos1 = rand(0, 100) . '%';
								$pos2 = rand(0, 100) . '%';
								return 'background-position: ' . $pos1 . ' ' . $pos2 . ';';
							}
						)
					));

					// save compiled to file
					file_put_contents($cachedCompiledFile, $compiledTemplate);

					// render template and save this to file
					$renderer = LightnCandy::prepare($compiledTemplate);
					$template = $renderer($data);
					file_put_contents($cachedRenderedFile, $template);
				}

				array_push($this->templates, array(
				    'id' => $name,
					'template' => $template,
					'data' => $data,
					'json' => $json
				));
			}
		}
	}