README

NOTE: V4 docs are currently a work in progress. Contributions are welcome.

Plates is a native PHP template system that's fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It's inspired by the excellent Twig template engine and strives to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates. Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled template languages, such as Twig or Blade.

Highlights

Native PHP templates, no new syntax to learn
Plates is a template system, not a template language
Plates encourages the use of existing PHP functions and conventions
Increase code reuse with template layouts and inheritance
Template folders for grouping templates into namespaces
Data sharing across templates
Preassign data to specific templates
Built-in escaping helpers
Simple design crafted for extendability - most features are built as extensions
Everything is customizable, don't like the behavior of something, you can change it
Composable naming strategies allowing relative templates, folders, and dynamic base paths.
Framework-agnostic, will work with any project
Decoupled design makes templates easy to test
Supports non-php file rendering for img or svg files to include in your templates.
Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant

Installation

Plates is available via Composer:

composer require league/plates:v4.0.0-alpha

Documentation

Full documentation can be found at platesphp.com.

Testing

make test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email rj@bighead.net instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

RJ Garcia (Current Maintainer)
Jonathan Reinink (Original Author)
All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

codephix / plates

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