r7r/ste

A compiling template engine with an XML-ish syntax

2.0.1 2020-09-22 20:09 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.3.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor: ^2.9
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9

MIT

• Laria Carolin Chabowski

• templating

README

The STE Template Engine (STE) is a template engine for the PHP programming language.

Get it via composer / packagist

Composer is a dependency manager and package manager for PHP. Using composer is the recommended way of installing STE.

Just put r7r/ste in your requirements (I suggest using the version 2.*) and execute composer install. Then include composer's autoloader and you can simply use all stuff in the \r7r\ste namespace without further requires or includes. Awesome!

Requirements

PHP >= 7.3

Why should you use it?

• It's syntax (inspired by Textpattern's template syntax) is very easy and similar to the syntax of (X)HTML. So it should be easy for designers to learn this system.
• It has a simple, yet powerful plugin interface. You can easily define your own template functions / tags. It is even possible to write them in the template language itself, which makes it kind of a programming language...
• It can compile templates into PHP.
• You can use anonymous functions to define custom tags.

Documentation

The docu directory contains the documentation of the template language. If you need the documentation of the php code / the API, you can create it with the mkdocu.sh script. This is done using phpDocumentor. It will be installed as a dev-depencency by composer.

There is also a mirror of the documentation here.