Popularity

3.3

Growing

Activity

0.0

Stable

Stars 168

Watchers 16

Forks 24

Last Commit about 6 years ago

Code Quality Rank: L5

Monthly Downloads: 1,691

Programming language: PHP

License: MIT License

Tags: Templating Template Engine Templates

Latest version: v0.6.7

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7.0 0.0 L5 Foil VS Plates

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Latte

6.4 8.6 L3 Foil VS Latte

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MtHaml

4.5 0.0 L5 Foil VS MtHaml

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PHPTAL

3.7 4.7 L3 Foil VS PHPTAL

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Blade

3.2 0.0 Foil VS Blade

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Lex

3.0 0.0 L5 Foil VS Lex

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2.7 0.0 L4 Foil VS Phly Mustache

PHP 5.3 Mustache implementation
TextGenerator

2.6 1.8 L5 Foil VS TextGenerator

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Aura.View

2.6 0.0 Foil VS Aura.View

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Tale Jade

2.4 0.0 L2 Foil VS Tale Jade

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1.9 7.1 Foil VS #<Sawyer::Resource:0x00007fe7e9378308>

Phug - The Pug Template Engine for PHP
PhpEcho

1.4 7.5 Foil VS PhpEcho

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They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest.

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README

FOIL

PHP template engine, for PHP templates.

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.

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

Why?

Templates engines like Twig, or Blade are a great thing, really.

However, to use them one needs to learn another language with its own syntax and rules.

Moreover, using compiled engines to use even a simple PHP function one needs to write engine extension.

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.

Requirements

Foil is framework agnostic, only thing needed is PHP 5.4+ and Composer to add Foil to you PHP project.

License

Foil is open source and released under MIT license. See LICENSE file for more info.

Question? Issues?

Foil is hosted on GitHub. Feel free to open issues there for suggestions, questions and real issues.

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.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Foil README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.