jaypha / j-plate

Hierarchical components incorporating a PHP based template engine (deprecated, use Jayponents)

Jaypha Templates

Written by Jason den Dulk

A simple, yet powerful template engine.

Features

• Uses PHP itself as the template engine, so no need to reinvent the wheel or use bloated parsers and interpreters, or learn yet another language.

• You can create custom component classes that allow you to have extra component specific business logic that can be kept out of the template, or handle boilerplate you dont want to have repeated in every template file.

• Specify the template either as a string or a file.

• Direct output. Displays content directly to output for faster rendering. Output to a string (via __toString) is also supported.

• Hierarchical. Components can be added to other Components to create output of arbitrary complexity. No need for partials, layouts or helpers as Component can be used for all of these roles.

Requirements

PHP v5.4.0 or greater.

Installation

composer require jaypha/j-plate

API

class Component

__construct($template, $initialData)

Constructor for the Component class.
$template - The template file to use.
$initialData - Associative array for values to be used. May be non-associative if no template is provided.

void setTemplate(string $template = null) Sets the template file

void setVars(array $values) Sets all the values.

void set(string $name, mixed $value) Sets a single value

void remove(string $name) Removes a value stored under $name.

void add(mixed $value) Adds a value without a name. Useful when no template is being used.

void clear() Removes all values.

void display() Outputs the contents to the output context.

string __toString() Returns the contents as a string.

trait TextComponentTrait

A trait that allows the template to be provided directly instead of via a file.

class TextComponent

Behaves the same as Component except that the template is provided directly instead of via a file.

How to use templates

This project make use of PHP's ability to embed PHP code inside a text file. Simply surround your code with <?php and ?>, or <?= and ?>.

All values are loaded into the context and can be accessed directly. For example, a value set with the name viewName, can be printed with <?=$viewName?>.

License

Copyright (C) 2017 Jaypha.
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt