| PEAR Announce 2005-10-29, 3:57 am |
| The new PEAR package HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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Minor Bugfix Release
Feature Requests:
bug #5752 - add support for :e modifier == htmlentities() call.
* flexy:nameuses also replaces in id (obviously if %s in included)
Fixes
* dont bork with error if value is not set when setValue() on a
radio button is called.
* fix up flexy:nameuses with radio buttons.
* php4.4 compatibility issues (return by ref stuff)
* summarize security issues with SimpleTags backend
Package Info
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HTML_Template_Flexy started it's life as a simplification of HTML_Template_Xipe,
however in Version 0.2, It became one of the first template engine to use a real Lexer,
rather than regex'es, making it possible to do things like ASP.net or Cold Fusion tags.
However, it still has a very simple set of goals.
- Very Simple API,
o easy to learn...
o prevents to much logic going in templates
- Easy to write document'able code
o By using object vars for a template rather than 'assign', you
can use phpdoc comments to list what variable you use.
- Editable in WYSIWYG editors
o you can create full featured templates, that doesnt get broken every time you edit with
Dreamweaver(tm) or Mozilla editor
o Uses namespaced attributes to add looping/conditionals
- Extremely Fast,
o runtime is at least 4 time smaller than most other template engines (eg. Smarty)
o uses compiled templates, as a result it is many times faster on blocks and loops than
than Regex templates (eg. IT/phplib)
- Safer (for cross site scripting attacks)
o All variables default to be output as HTML escaped (overridden with the :h modifier)
- Multilanguage support
o Parses strings out of template, so you can build translation tools
o Compiles language specific templates (so translation is only done once, not on every request)
- Full dynamic element support (like ASP.NET), so you can pick elements to replace at runtime
Features:
- {variable} to echo $object->variable
- {method()} to echo $object->method();
- {foreach:var,key,value} to PHP foreach loops
- tag attributes FLEXY:FOREACH, FLEXY:IF for looping and conditional HTML inclusion
- {if:variable} to PHP If statement
- {if:method()} to PHP If statement
- {else:} and {end:} to close or alternate If statements
- FORM to HTML_Template_Flexy_Element's
- replacement of INPUT, TEXTAREA and SELECT tags with HTML_Template_Flexy_Element code
use FLEXY:IGNORE (inherited) and FLEXY:IGNOREONLY (single) to prevent replacements
- FLEXY:START/FLEXY:STARTCHILDREN tags to define where template starts/finishes
- support for urlencoded braces {} in HTML attributes.
- documentation in the pear manual
- examples at http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/pear/HTM...te_Flexy/tests/
** The long term plan for Flexy is to be integrated as a backend for the
Future Template Package (A BC wrapper will be made available - as I need
to use it too!)
Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Flexy
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Te.../download/1.2.3
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.3.tgz
Authors
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Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (lead)
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