Merry Christmas Release.

Don Duvall — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:57:48 -0000

Merry Christmas, everyone. I have just finished up the 2.20 release a little early, fixing many issues, (Especially one I created with the last release, which broke the comments tag), and I am happy to say I have run this new release against multiple tests, and even one production environment to ensure I the main features are still working correctly.

New Features

There are a few new features, which I am super excited about, and already using in my own websites.

Object dereferencing in templates. This is the arrow -> syntax, now available for use with template variable.
Inheritence for templates! Using the new tags, {extends}, {region} & {get_region}. You can now have parent and child themes, with multiple levels of inheritence.

Bug Fixes

Here are a list of the bug fixes, with the ticket number for reference.

Personal Note

Thank you to everyone who is downloading this library. I am excited to continue development of the library into 2018. All of the recent downloads has most certainly improved my motivation to continue to develop and support this library.

Thanks,
Don Duvall (gasdevelper, tazdij)
tazdij.com

PHP 7+ Support

Don Duvall — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:21:21 -0000

Hey there, it has been about 6 years since I last gave TemplateLite any attention. Thanks to adnan360, and the contribution of a change to the Comments parsing in the TemplateLite Compiler. Sparking my interest in this old project, to follow through with my work on it, and continue supporting it. As of now Version 2.12 has been uploaded and it is fully PHP 7+ compatible and should not generate errors or warnings. If you happen to discover any warnings or errors, please let me know, and I will work on resolving them for you.

Thanks,

New TemplateLite Version 3.00 Alpha Soon!

gasdeveloper — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:14:50 -0000

Sorry for the lack of progress since I have acquired this project. I have been running behind on everything. But good news, I am now working on a new version of TemplateLite. I have decided to take a new approach to the template syntax. It is more expessive and less verbose than the current template syntax, with an optional HTML alternative syntax. This is due to many projects that I had train designers to use the Smarty markup. It is just to programmer like for a lot of designers that dont want to learn to code in anything that even looks like a programming language. So I have been working on a language that I think is simpler for designers, and a modification to the existing language which will make it easier for those that are more comfortable with coding.

All of the supported languages will be usable by setting the .mode compiler option at the top of each template file. No matter the .mode selected all templates will be able to work together in the same project. This means you can include a template containing say the header code, written in HTML Desinger code into a Tpl2 template, or any mix of the three syntax modes.

There are some differences in the languages, other than just syntax. Many new languages features are not planned to be supported in the HTML syntax. The biggest feature missing will be Macros, these are similar to functions in php, however are built in the template, for allowing nested display logic. Singe the HTML language is made for designers with little to no programming knowledge, I have decided to leave this feature to the new language.

The three language mode are:
{.mode Tpl3}
{.mode Tpl2}
{.mode Html}

If not specified, TemplateLite will default to Tpl3. Setting the DefaultLanguageMode config option will change the default.

Here is a little sample of each.

<!-- New Default Syntax -->
{foreach user in users}
    Username: {user.usename}<br>
    {if user.group_id == 'admin'}
        * superuser<br>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

<!-- HTML Designer Syntax -->
{.mode Html} 
<tpl:foreach loop="users" var="user">
    Line: <tpl:print var="user.username" /><br>
    <tpl:if user.group_id eq "admin">
        * superuser
    </tpl:if>
</tpl:foreach>

<!-- Tpl2 Mode Syntax -->
{.mode Tpl2}
{foreach from="users" value="user"}
    Username: {$user}<br>
{/foreach}

Part of the change is coming from the need to redesign the parser and compiler class to maintain compatibility with the newer versions of PHP and removing deprecated features. I am using this as an opportunity to refocus the project. Pushing for a language that offers simple and advanced usage, as well as having a compatibility mode. A more optimized runtime object to reach near direct PHP execution speed and only a slim runtime overhead.

Please let me know your opinions.

Template Lite Version 2.10 Released