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Smarty3 template engine module for PPI2.

Smarty

Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation.

Some of Smarty's features:

• It is extremely fast.
• It is efficient since the PHP parser does the dirty work.
• No template parsing overhead, only compiles once.
• It is smart about recompiling only the template files that have changed.
• You can easily create your own custom functions and variable modifiers, so the template language is extremely extensible.
• Configurable template {delimiter} tag syntax, so you can use {$foo}, {{$foo}}, <!--{$foo}-->, etc.
• The {if}..{elseif}..{else}..{/if} constructs are passed to the PHP parser, so the {if...} expression syntax can be as simple or as complex an evaluation as you like.
• Allows unlimited nesting of sections, if's etc.
• Built-in caching support.
• Arbitrary template sources.
• Template Inheritance for easy management of template content.
• Plugin architecture.

Requirements

• PHP 5.3.3 and up
• PPI Framework 2 (2.1.x)

Installation

1. Install Composer

If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

2. Add ppi/smarty-module to your composer.json and install

$ php composer.phar require ppi/smarty-module dev-master

Composer will install the module to your project's vendor/ppi directory.

3. Enable the module

Enable this module by editing app/config/modules.yml:

modules:
    - PPI\SmartyModule
    # ...

License

This module is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Authors

• Paul Dragoonis - paul@ppi.io ~ twitter.com/dr4goonis
• Vítor Brandão - vitor@ppi.io ~ twitter.com/noiselabs

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Submitting bugs and feature requests

Bugs and feature requests are tracked on GitHub.

About PPI

PPI is an open source PHP meta-framework. It has taken the good bits from Symfony2, ZendFramework2 & Doctrine2 and combined them together to create a solid and very easy web application framework. It can be considered the boilerplate of PHP frameworks.