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This plugin for the CakePHP Framework allows you to use the Twig, the flexible, fast, and secure template engine for PHP.

Apart from enabling you to use most of Twig's features the plugin is tightly integrated with the CakePHP view renderer giving you full access to helpers, objects and elements.

New in this version

Using Composer for dependency management

Installation

via Archive

Download the current version as ZIP, unzip it and rename the extracted folder to twig. Then put the twig folder inside your plugins and you are done.

via GitHub

Just clone the repository directly into your plugins folder as twig.

$ git clone https://github.com/m3nt0r/cakephp-twig-view.git twig

Twig Version Support

This plugin now uses Composer to manage dependencies. Simply running "composer install" will fetch the required libraries.

Enabling the View

Inside your app_controller.php add the following:

class AppController extends Controller {
    public $view = 'Twig.Twig'; // use twig
}

Now start by creating twig templates using the .tpl extension.

Fallback / Upgrading exsiting apps

By default the view will render any existing .ctp like always but will prefer the .tpl version if present. This means that, for example, the index.ctp is used until you create a index.tpl at the same location.

That way you can upgrade existing views one at a time instead of having to rework all files at once.

Documentation

Check the wiki for more details on features and usage.

Version History

This version was written on CakePHP 1.3.

v0.8

Replaced "TWIG_DIR" method with composer.
Removed included Twig library
Minor refactoring

v0.7.1

Added TWIG_DIR so you can define the full Twig root-directory name
Deprecated TWIG_VERSION because it lost its purpose due to this change
Added fabpot/Twig as a submodule of this git repository

v0.7

Complete rewrite
Latest Twig (v1.8.3 atm)
Easy to upgrade
Easy to install
Easy to migrate
Extendable (see wiki)
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CakePHP 2

Support for 2.x may be limited to non-existant. If you run on 2.x i suggest that you check out the fork of predominant.

layershifter / cakephp-twig-view

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