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Tiny/View separates your business logic from its representation, it means you can store your view as a list of separated .phtml files and pass there you data keeping you controllers clean.

The package is very small and fast due to using native php inside templates and layouts, yes we don't use any extra markup language, it's only relies on the php's alternative syntax

There are only two main entities: templates and layouts.

Templates are used for displaying small peaces of information like list of users, a login form, etc. And the layouts which work as wrappers for those templates. For instance you can have several layouts with already included css and js files and It makes you life easier because you don't need to specify any js and css files for every template.

Template

<?php

    use Tiny\View\View;

    // we are going to show the user list
    $view = new View(['users' => [ // an array of users
            ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'Tester1'],
            ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Tester2']
        ]],
        './users.phtml', // a template for the data,
        './layout/base.phtml' // a layout it's optional 
    );

    // render the template using passed variables and wrap its content to a layout
    echo $view;

<ul>
    <?php foreach ($this->users as $user): ?>
        <li>
            <b><?= $this->id ?></b>: <?= $this->name ?>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

Layout

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
        <head>
            <meta charset="utf-8">
            <title>My test site</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <div class="container">
                <!-- inject generated data from templates -->
                <?= $this->content ?>
            </div>
        </body>
    </html>

View helpers

When it's not enough a pre built functionality or it might be not convenient way to work with templates you can register you own list of helpers (small functions) which will do exactly you want. Please read more information in the documentation

Installation

Run the following to install this library:

$ composer require esase/tiny-view

Documentation

https://tiny-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tiny-view/docs/index.html

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