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Foil

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PHP template engine for native PHP templates

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FOIL
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> PHP template engine, for PHP templates.

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**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.

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# Requirements

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

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# 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](https://twitter.com/gmazzap)) or on ["The Loop"](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/6/the-loop) (Stack Exchange) chat. Well, it's possible I'll ignore rants.

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