[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Template_Flexy-0.8.0 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package HTML_Template_Flexy-0.8.0 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Feature addition release: Moving to stable is posponed another month, so these new features get a thorough testing. Bugs / Fixes: * fixed overzealous closing on some tags * fixed double html escaping of some dynamic attributes * ignore empty url_rewrite options (eg. images/:/templates/images,,) * fixed recursion death, on &lt;s&gt; tags * fixed flexy {variables} inside attributes='that are single quoted' * unknown namespaces are assumed to be HTML (so XUL with html works ok) Features: * Translation2 transparent translation backend support $options['Translation2'] = array( 'driver' => 'dataobjectsimple', 'options' => array() ) will instantate Translation2 once , and call it to translate all strings found when compiling. * Strings to be translated can be explicitly marked by encapsulating them in {_( ....... )_} Parsing is done prior to tokenizing, so you can include {variables} inside the translation strings. * Access to private variables and methods now possible eg. {_myprivate_var} ** requires option['privates'] = true * Access to super global variables now possible eg. {_SESSION[lang]} {_GET[posted]} {_POST[posted]} {_REQUEST[lang]} {GLOBALS[posted]} {_COOKIES[posted]} ** requires option['globals'] = true (as per all variable, these are html escaped by default, for security reasons, over-ride with the :h modifier) * Access to php functions now possible {GLOBALS.date(mydate,#d/m/y#)} ** requires option['globalfunctions'] = true ** this is a big security hole if you dont trust your template authors, it exposes exec() etc. * New Test infrastructure in CVS - enabling better unit testing. 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) - Safer (for cross site scripting attacks) o All variables default to be output as HTML escaped (overridden with the :h modifier) - Multilanguage support o Parses strings out of template, so you can build translation tools o Compiles language specific templates (so translation is only done once, not on every request) - 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-0.8.0.tgz Authors ------------- Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (lead)