Top 19 PHP Templating Projects

• Twig

  56 8,015 9.1 PHP

  Twig, the flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP

  

Project mention: How to integrate Component Architecture into Symfony? | dev.to | 2024-03-15

Miscommunication in our projects is costly. A single misunderstood User Story can result in 3 days of wasted development time. Additionally, when developers do not use the same programming language, it may be necessary to construct APIs to facilitate communication, which can also be expensive. It is important to consider why front-end developers may be hesitant to work with Twig and how this can lead to a disconnect between front-end and back-end development.

• Mustache

  3 3,219 1.6 PHP

  A Mustache implementation in PHP.

• InfluxDB

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• Smarty

  2 2,197 8.5 PHP

  Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic.

  

• Plates

  6 1,465 0.0 PHP

  Native PHP template system

  

Project mention: What is your tech stack for blog websites? (not wordpress) | /r/webdev | 2023-06-07

I use PHP with Route, the Plates template engine, and my blog posts are markdown files grouped by folder (year/month/day.md).

• Latte

  10 1,061 8.6 PHP

  ☕ Latte: the safest & truly intuitive templates for PHP. Engine for those who want the most secure PHP sites.

  

• MtHaml

  0 362 0.0 PHP

  Multi target HAML (HAML for PHP, Twig, <your language here>)

• PHPTAL

  1 174 4.7 PHP

  PHP Template Attribute Language — template engine for XSS-proof well-formed XHTML and HTML5 pages

  

Project mention: Ludic: New framework for Python with seamless Htmx support | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-21

I agree and I don't fully understand the why of it.

I remember coding PL/SQL to emmit HTML in Oracle around 1999 or 2000 and using functions to code the various elements.

Thay got old and repetitive very quickly - for instqance, everytime I had to correct a spelling error, I had to recompile the code.

To get around it I used one or two tables to hold html snippets to decouple the business/backend logic from the frontend, and stopped using the PL/SQL functios completely.

My speed of developmet skyrocketed, and separating and abstracting the frontend from the backend made so much sense.

A few years later, I was doing web developemt with Python using the Zope framework (not many people know about it tiday, I think).

It uses a specialised serverside templating language called TAL (Template Attribute Language)[1] that basically builds the front end dynamically, and then you feed it data from the backend.

Very neat and allowed me to build reusable compoments as well as collections of a schema definition (basically a dict), html template(s) and the code to validate that the inpuy matched the schema and could be rendered.

Or something like that its been 2 employers and almost 20 years since i worked with tha :)

I did build a small php extension for Wordpress using a PHP implementation[2] of TAL a few years ago, and TAL still works like a charm :)

My point is that I still believe there is value in keeping python out of the HTMl-templating, and in keeping the front end logic apart from the backend logic.

There is something I am not understanding about the renewal of mixing HTML/GUI template with code, buy I haven't fully found it yet.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language

[2] I believe it was this one https://phptal.org/

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• Foil

  0 168 0.0 PHP

  PHP template engine for native PHP templates

  

• Phly Mustache

  0 122 0.0 PHP

  PHP 5.3 Mustache implementation

  

• Lex

  0 106 0.0 PHP

  A lightweight template parser used by PyroCMS.

  

• TextGenerator

  0 92 1.8 PHP

  TextGenerator is a PHP package that aims to generate automated texts from data.

• Tale Jade

  0 89 0.0 PHP

  A complete and fully-functional implementation of the Jade template language for PHP

  

• Aura.View

  0 86 0.0 PHP

  Provides TemplateView and TwoStepView using PHP as the templating language, with support for partials, sections, and helpers.

  

• Phug

  0 61 7.1 PHP

  Phug - The Pug Template Engine for PHP

  

• vtpl

  1 16 3.3 PHP

  Vtpl is a php template engine that ensures proper separations of concerns, the frontend logic is separated from presentation. The goal is to keep the html unchanged for better maintainability for both backend and frontend developers

Project mention: That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-26

• PhpEcho

  0 11 7.5 PHP

  A native PHP template engine: One class to rule them all ;-)

• Dataplater

  1 8 0.0 PHP

  template engine that uses HTML data-* attributes so your templates look great before rendering

• PHP-UI-Kit

  1 7 6.9 PHP

  A toolkit for developing universal web interfaces with support for multiple CSS frameworks.

• parsem

  1 4 5.8 PHP

  Parser for YAML, JSON and NEON templates.

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