README

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 Smarty.

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
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
Easy to extend using functions and extensions
Framework-agnostic, will work with any project
Decoupled design makes templates easy to test
Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant

Installation

Plates is available via Composer:

composer require league/plates

Documentation

Full documentation can be found at plates.jinya.dev.

Testing

phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email developers@jinya.de instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

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

License

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

jinya / plates

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