Introduction





About

Plates is a native PHP template system that’s fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It’s inspired by the excellent Twig template engine and strives to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates. Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled template languages, such as Twig or Smarty.

Highlights

Native PHP templates, no new syntax to learn

Plates is a template system, not a template language

Plates encourages the use of existing PHP functions

Increase code reuse with template layouts and inheritance

Template folders for grouping templates into namespaces

Data sharing across templates

Preassign data to specific templates

Built-in escaping helpers

Easy to extend using functions and extensions

Framework-agnostic, will work with any project

Decoupled design makes templates easy to test

Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant

Questions?

Plates is maintained by RJ Garcia and originally created by Jonathan Reinink. Submit issues to Github.