A PHP templating engine based on Laravel Blade

Petals is a zero dependency PHP templating engine based on Laravel Blade. This was built as a fun experiment to play with ChatGPT and GitHub Co-pilot, between the two AI tools they wrote ~60% of the code.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require statix-php/petals

Usage

use Statix\Petals\TemplatingEngine;

// require the composer autoloader
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$engine = new TemplatingEngine(
    templates: __DIR__.'/templates',
    cachePath: __DIR__.'/cache',
);

$engine = new TemplatingEngine(
    templates: [
        __DIR__ . '/templates-one',
        __DIR__ . '/templates-two',
    ],
    cachePath: __DIR__.'/cache',
);

// Render the templates/app.blade.php template
$content = $engine->render('app', [
    'message' => 'Hello world!',
]);

// Render the given string
$content = $engine->renderString('Hello {{ $name }}! The unix timestamp is {{ $time }}', [
    'name' => 'world',
    'time' => time(),
]);

// Compile the template to the cache directory, the compiled template will be used to render the template when render is called
$engine->compile('app');

// Compile the given string to the cache directory, if render is called on the same string, it will be rendered from the compiled cache template
$engine->compileString('Hello {{ $name }}! The unix timestamp is {{ $time }}');

// Clear the compiled templates
$engine->clearCache();

Testing

composer test

Formatting

composer format

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

• Wyatt Castaneda
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.