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NicoGranelli
NicoGranelli

Reputation: 680

Is there a template system like Twig that uses PHP syntax?

I would like to use a template system like Twig (specifically the block functionality) but in plain PHP.

For example, I found http://phpsavant.com/docs/ but it seems that doesn't support blocks or anything similar.

Edit I found something that appears to have block syntax with regular PHP code: http://phpti.com/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 751

Answers (5)

tharumax
tharumax

Reputation: 1261

As far as I understand use off Blade for views is optional in Laravel. You can use file name like view.php instead of view.blade.php and use plain old PHP syntax there. Only catch is you cannot have both view.php and view.blade.php as they both respond to 

return View::make('view);

Upvotes: 0

Adam Elsodaney
Adam Elsodaney

Reputation: 7818

There is one included in the Laravel framework called Blade.

You can mix plain old PHP with the Blade templating syntax, where {{...}} also translates to <?=...?> or <?php echo ... ?>

Also has blocks you know in Twig, but they are called sections.

@section('heading')
    {{ strtoupper("I'm not shouting") }}
@show

<?= strtolower('Shhh!'); ?>

This is under the Illuminate\View namespace - See on GitHub, and can be downloaded with Composer as it is also registered on Packagist - just at the following to your project's composer.json.

{
    "require": {
        "illuminate/view": "4.*"
    }
}

I'm not certain at this point about how you'd attempt to render a template from a custom project. If I find out, I'll update my answer.

Upvotes: 1

mpm
mpm

Reputation: 20155

PHP is a templating language(yes it is) , blocks can be implemented with buffers :

<?php
ob_start();
?>
  this the content of the block for <?= date("Y-m-d") ?>
<?php
$content = ob_get_clean();

then in the main layout echo the content of the blocks :

echo $head;
echo $content ;
// ....

in fact that is what most template engines are using.

using template libs have huge advantages though ( caching , escaping by default ,etc ... )

Upvotes: 0

gruner
gruner

Reputation: 1570

Symfony (which uses Twig by default) also has a php-based template system that works very much like Twig. It has template inheritance and uses 'slots', which are equivalent to Twig's blocks. It's a stand-alone library that can be used outside of the full Symfony framework.

http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/cookbook/templating/PHP.html

Upvotes: 0

lucian303
lucian303

Reputation: 3602

The templating language you are looking for is called PHP!

Upvotes: 3

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