Jaz-Lounge

I just created my second template engine. The first one is something you rather use to create fast prototypes then comfortably themable systems. And in this one I build in some cool features and ideas I gathered during my time using and experimenting with some so called template engines like in Textpattern (ah pretty nice one) or Wordpress (one that is called PHP *g*).

Especially Textpattern has some nice ideas in their template engine which I picked up and extended in this template engine. (more…)

Template engines for PHP have a narrow path that differs between usefull and useless. I often heared the question: Why using a template engine? PHP by itself is one.

Indeed, there are possibilities to use PHP as one and wikipedia.org says it is one. And of course it runs alone faster then every template engine you can build upon it. So where is the big deal?

This article tries to discuss what a template engine really is and what it is not. (more…)