- made it PSR-0 compatible and Composer friendly (https://packagist.org/packages/mcsodbrenner/serpent) and added an PSR-0 autoloader for people which does not use Composer or an PSR-0 autoloader.
- added specific Exceptions.
- compilers are not longer plugins and not changeable. If you want to integrate other compilers just use mappings.
- resources are not longer plugins and have to be injected with
addResource(). - own resources have to implement the interface
\McSodbrenner\Serpent\Resource. - in mappings you have now direct access to the parameters via the array
$this->_mapping_parameters. - you can add your own mappings via
addMappings(). Now it is also possible to use anonymous functions. - changed syntax for block. They are now also mappings, e.g.
~:block('content')~and~:endblock()~. - new mapping
:loop. It's like a for loop or a dynamic :repeat.
It was designed to seamlessly integrate into existing MVC frameworks and uses PHP itself as its template language, so you do not need to learn a new markup language. On the other side you get many improvements compared to pure PHP.
What it has: (Overview in Detail & Documentation)
- PSR-0 and Composer compatible
- short syntax for php tags (shorter than PHPs own short tags wich are also possible)
- no additional markup language
- dot syntax for arrays (like Smarty)
- shortcuts for your own functions
- infinite horizontal and vertical template inheritance
- definable resources
- compiling engine for best performance
- E_STRICT compatible
- Unit tested
What it does not have: (Why it is missing those features)
- template security
- caching system
- overhead