Simple templating for rapid prototyping. Requires PHP 5.3 (because of the closure). Based on the simple template class by Chad Emrys Minick

What does(n't) it do?

• Lets you wrap your pages in a simple template with just one line of PHP.

• Allows you to set other variables, handy for things like page title.

• Doesn't get in your way at all. Just <?php require('kisskiss-light.php'); ?> and start writing.

• No automatic output escaping. There's a shortcut to htmlspecialchars() that you can use in your template files, called e().

• Not designed with complex uses in mind. If you want to do more than wrap plain HTML content in a simple template, you're on your own. It might work, but that's not really what this is for. If you want a micro-framework, try Silex

• Dynamically embeds the content in the template for every web request. This is rarely necessary. Consider using a static site generator like Jekyll, Piecrust or my own Site-Builder instead. Web servers like Apache and nginx can serve flat HTML hundreds of times faster than generated PHP pages.

  Alternatively, you can run each page through PHP on the command-line and save the output as a .html file and serve that instead. That's effectively how static site generators work anyway.

Installation

1. Download and unpack this project
2. Make your own template.php - the only thing it needs is <?php echo $content; ?> where you want your content to go. You can add as many other variables as you like, just set them like: $view->pageTitle = 'Hello world'; in your page. They'll be available in the template as, e.g. $pageTitle
3. Create your pages as usual, but at the top, add <?php require('kisskiss-light.php'); ?>

Example

Check the example/ folder. There's both a template, and a normal page.

How does it work?

When you use the require('kisskiss-light.php') statement to load kisskiss, it defines the template class, creates an object of that class with some default options, sets a shutdown function, and then starts a PHP output buffer. This captures all the output that happens afterward, including the rest of the content of your file.

When your file has finished being processed by PHP, the shutdown function is called. It captures the content of the output buffer in a variable and passes it to the template object that was created earlier. Finally it calls the render() method on the template object, which loads the template file and runs it as PHP, passing it the variables that have been set on it. As long as your template outputs the $content variable, the content of your page will be displayed in the template file you choose.