foil/foil

PHP template engine for native PHP templates

FOIL

PHP template engine, for PHP templates., _(*1)

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Foil brings all the flexibility and power of modern template engines to native PHP templates. Write simple, clean and concise templates with nothing more than PHP., _(*3)

Key Features

• Templates inheritance (you'll never miss Twig or Blade)
• Clean, concise and DRY templates
• Dozen of ready-made helper functions and filters
• Easily extensible and customizable
• Multiple template folders with file auto-discover or custom picking
• Auto or manual data escape
• Powerful context API (preassign data to templates using conditions)
• Framework agnostic, centralized API for very easy integration
• Composer ready, fully unit and functional tested, PSR-1/2/4 compliant

...and many more, _(*4)

Why?

Templates engines like Twig, or Blade are a great thing, really., _(*5)

However, to use them one needs to learn another language with its own syntax and rules., _(*6)

Moreover, using compiled engines to use even a simple PHP function one needs to write engine extension., _(*7)

On its side, PHP is already a templating language, but honestly it's not a good one, because it's missing pivotal features of modern template engines, like template inheritance., _(*8)

Requirements

Foil is framework agnostic, only thing needed is PHP 5.4+ and Composer to add Foil to you PHP project., _(*9)

License

Foil is open source and released under MIT license. See LICENSE file for more info., _(*10)

Question? Issues?

Foil is hosted on GitHub. Feel free to open issues there for suggestions, questions and real issues., _(*11)

Who's Behind Foil

I'm Giuseppe, I deal with PHP since 2005. For questions, rants or chat ping me on Twitter (@gmazzap) or on "The Loop" (Stack Exchange) chat. Well, it's possible I'll ignore rants., _(*12)