[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Template_Flexy-0.7 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package HTML_Template_Flexy-0.7 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Last Beta release - (eg. it's a RC Release - next one will be stable!!! hopefully) Minor Bugfix - fixed bug #643 (compile incorrectly tests for string on windows.) - fixed bug #615 constructor can not return errors * check for compileDir isDir is in the compile() anyway.. - fix bug 1120: remove necessity to use flexy:ignoreonly, * if a input tag has {variable} the engine assumes you dont want use a flexy_element. - fix bug #809 - extra minuses in comments (too may ---> caused problems ) - fix bug #874 (literals with commas in flexy:if) flexy:if=(#aaa,bbb#) correctly seen as a single attribute - fix bug 739 - syntax checking on foreach flexy:foreach="singlevalue" now flagged as error. - /flexy:include and toJavascript closers now correctly ignored. - fix #856 - fix get_class usage. - Fix bug when too many closing tags could zero the stack and delete parts of the template. New Features - config option templateDirOrder=reverse, allows you to prefer the first found template, rather than the last found template (when using theme type configurations) - Engine uses File_Gettext if gettext is not found. (or textdomain is set.) - Provisional SmartyConverter compiler, * provides a basic Coversion of Smarty to Flexy templates - Provisional SmartyAPI emulator added. * allows drop in replacement of flexy with simple code that uses Smarty. - strict option so variable can emit errors if they are not defined. - multiSource option for enabling themes type systems, where you can override the default template folder with your own custom designs. Behaviour changed - templateDir can be an array, or string seperated by the system path seperatory (; on windows,: on unix) - If a file exists in multiple paths, then The LAST FOUND template will be used. (previously this emited an error) - If you use multiple paths in the template_dir, then the path will be modified to write to {compileDir}/{basename(actualTemplateDir)}_{md5(actualTemplateDir)}/...template.. Package Info ------------- HTML_Template_Flexy started it's life as a simplification of HTML_Template_Xipe, however in Version 0.2, It became one of the first template engine to use a real Lexer, rather than regex'es, making it possible to do things like ASP.net or Cold Fusion tags. However, it still has a very simple set of goals. - Very Simple API, o easy to learn... o prevents to much logic going in templates - Easy to write document'able code o By using object vars for a template rather than 'assign', you can use phpdoc comments to list what variable you use. - Editable in WYSIWYG editors o you can create full featured templates, that doesnt get broken every time you edit with Dreamweaver(tm) or Mozzila editor o Uses namespaced attributes to add looping/conditionals - Extremely Fast, o runtime is at least 4 time smaller than most other template engines (eg. Smarty) o uses compiled templates, as a result it is many times faster on blocks and loops than than Regex templates (eg. IT/phplib) - Full dynamic element support (like ASP.NET), so you can pick elements to replace at runtime Features: - {variable} to echo $object->variable - {method()} to echo $object->method(); - {foreach:var,key,value} to PHP foreach loops - tag attributes FLEXY:FOREACH, FLEXY:IF for looping and conditional HTML inclusion - {if:variable} to PHP If statement - {if:method()} to PHP If statement - {else:} and {end:} to close or alternate If statements - FORM to HTML_Template_Flexy_Element's - replacement of INPUT, TEXTAREA and SELECT tags with HTML_Template_Flexy_Element code use FLEXY:IGNORE (inherited) and FLEXY:IGNOREONLY (single) to prevent replacements - FLEXY:START/FLEXY:STARTCHILDREN tags to define where template starts/finishes - support for urlencoded braces {} in HTML attributes. - documentation in the pear manual - examples at http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/pear/HTML_Template_Flexy/examples Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Flexy Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=HTML_Template_Flexy Download: http://pear.php.net/get/HTML_Template_Flexy-0.7.tgz Authors ------------- Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (lead)