[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.4 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Minor Bugfix / New Feature Release Bugs ---- #6152 - default to using key in optgroup when novalue not set #5267 - checkboxes using [], with ids #5752 - add support for :e modifier == htmlentities() call. Features/Changes and Fixes -------------------------- * add ability to remove unused translations (in HTML_Template_Flexy_Translator, tidy up javascript a little (ivan) * add support for gettext Translation2 backend - Requires uptodate version of Gettext/Translation2 packages ... (ivan) * remove warning from compiled template, when trying to merge possibly non-existant elements * remove short tags output from Simpletags compiler backend. + lots of whitespace changes, for some reason... (Demian Turner) * basic charset support in HTML_Template_Flexy_Element ... this is a todo for the rendering layer though... (eg. utf8 / big5 sent to htmlspecialchars) * de-escaping of &amp;nbsp; only used in select option text - removed this feature from other elements * add XUL checkbox support. * correctly replace linefeeds on XUL textbox's * better handling of XUL textbox and menulist elements converted to Flexy XUL Elements * flexy:nameuses also replaces in id (obviously if %s is included) 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 Mozilla 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/tests/ Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Flexy Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_Flexy/download/1.2.4 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/HTML_Template_Flexy-1.2.4.tgz Authors ------------- Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (lead)