Pate
Pate is a PHP Attribute Template Engine inspired by PHPTAL but run much faster. It uses syntax like angular and vue, But renders on the server side. It’s compatible with PHPTAL.
Why Use Pate Instead Of PHPTAL?
I use PHPTAL as our template engine in one of my Project. But is was TOO SLOW!!, and TOO COMPLICATED. So I decide to rewrite a similar Template Engine named PATE.
Here are some advantages:
- TREE times faster than PHPTAL. PHPTAL takes several seconds to render a big page(abount 150k), but PATE is more than 3 times faster.
- PATE is Extremely Extensible. PATE is designed for extensible, You can create your own Syntax to enhance PATE’s feature.
- PATE is Extremely Easy. There are only 1/10 codes of PHPTAL, but much more powerful.
- PATE’s compiled file is VERY READABLE. But PHPTAL’s compiled file is complicated and very hard to read.
- PHPTAL is too strict with dom and variables, error occurs frequently. Pate is friendly.
Requirements
To use Pate, you need
-
PHP >= 5.4.
-
With dom extension installed.
Install
With composer
composer require softwarezhu/pate
Examples
Attributes
Template file
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<img tal:attributes="src data/src; alt data/title"/>
</body>
</html>
Do render(ie. This template is named ‘template.html’)
use Pate\PateTemplate;
$template = new PateTemplate();
$template->loadHtmlFile('template.html');
$content = $template->render(array(
'data' => array(
'src' => 'htttp://github.com/logo.jpg',
'title' => 'Github Logo'
)
));
echo $content;
The render result will be
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<img src="htttp://github.com/logo.jpg" alt="Github Logo"/>
</body>
</html>
Template Syntax
Attributes
<img tal:attributes="src data/src; alt data/title"/>
The img src and alt attributes will be replaced by the data[‘src’] value and data[‘title’] value. The multiple attributes use “;” to separate.
Text
<span tal:content="data/title">This content will be replaced after rendered. </span>
Loop
<tr tal:repeat="product products" tal:content="product/title">This content will be replaced by product/title after rendered. </tr>
If the count of products is N, there will be N tr lines.
If
<div tal:condition="product/isPromote" tal:content="product/discount">If product/isPromote is false, this block will be removed from the dom. </div>
tal:condition likes if in php.
Replace
<div tal:replace="123">This entire DIV will be replaced with '123'(not the inner text). </div>