SmartTemplate 1.2.1

SmartTemplate is a Template Engine that was designed to support large scale, web based applications.
Whats so special about it?
Common template engines work like the following: Your PHP script specifies an HTML template and assigns some dynamic content to display. The template parser replaces all placeholders within the template with the assigned content and displays it to the user. This means a lot of string processing and regular expression work each time you want to display some content.
SmartTemplate works like a template compiler that converts templates into executable PHP code and stores it for later reuse. The first time a new template is processed, all placeholders in the template are replaced by small PHP code elements that print the assigned content. The HTML template fragment < H3 >{TITLE}< /H3 >, for example, is converted into something like < H3 >< ?php echo $TITLE; ? >< /H3 >. If you have assigned your content to the right variables, there is no need for any template parsing anymore. The only thing that has to be done is to include and execute the compiled template. This usually increases the execution time of the template engine dramatically.
SmartTemplate supports:
- Simple Scalar Substitution (Strings, etc.)
- Block Iterations (nested Arrays / BEGIN..END)
- Basic Control Structures (IF..ELSEIF..ELSE)
- Custom Extension (Output filters, uppercase, sprintf, etc.)
- Template Compilation (HTML templates are converted to executable PHP Code)
- SubTemplate System (HTML templates can be included on other templates)
- Output Caching (Accelerates your applications by reusing page output)