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copied!<p>Here's what Fabien Potencier of the Symfony framework <a href="http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in-php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">has to say about templating engines</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Why do people still think PHP is a templating engine? Sure enough, PHP started its life as a template language, but it did not evolve like one in the recent years. If you think PHP is still a template language, can you give me just one recent change in the PHP language which enhanced PHP as a template language? I cannot think of one.</p> </blockquote> <p>He also describes the features that he looks for in a templating language:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Concision</li> <li>Template oriented syntax</li> <li>Reusability</li> <li>Security</li> <li>Sandbox mode</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>As well as some of the features that make his favorite templating language <a href="http://github.com/mitsuhiko/twig" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Twig</a> stand out:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Native template inheritance (templates are compiled as classes);</li> <li>Solid automatic auto-escaping (with no associated runtime overhead as everything is done during compilation);</li> <li>Very secure sandbox mode (white-list the tags, filters, and methods that can be used in templates);</li> <li>Great extensibility: you override everything, even the core features, by bundling your own tags and filters as an extension; but you can also manipulate the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) before compilation. By leveraging this possibilities, you can even create your own DSL (Domain Specific Language), targeted at your application.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>In the comments of the article, he says that, "It will probably be part of Symfony 2. But I first need some community feedback."</p> <p>Read <a href="http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in-php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the full article</a> to get his whole argument in favor of templating systems.</p>

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