How do I install the Twig Template Engine?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3436539

Question

I am running Mamp as my local server. I Have installed Twig in /Applications/MAMP/svn/twig/twig/lib. I have included this path in my php.ini file:

include_path = ".:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php:/Applications/MAMP/svn/zendframework/trunk/library:/Applications/MAMP/svn/twig/twig/lib";

What needs to go into my htdocs folder in order for me to complete the installation and access Twig?

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Solution

You don't need to install anything, you can just use it in PHP. Here's a simple script to load and render a template:

require_once( "Twig/Autoloader.php" );

Twig_Autoloader::register();
// Load template files from the ./tpl/ folder and use ./tpl/cache/ for caching
$twig = new Twig_Environment( new Twig_Loader_Filesystem("./tpl"),
    array( "cache" => "./tpl/cache" ) );

// Load and render 'template.tpl'
$tpl = $twig->loadTemplate( "template.tpl" );
echo $tpl->render( array("msg"=>"Hello, World!") );

Your template.tpl could look like this:

<html>
    <!-- ... -->
    <body>
        <h1>{{ msg|e }}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

This example will just escape and echo "Hello, World".

For more information just read the documentation for (PHP) developpers and template designers.

OTHER TIPS

include __DIR__ . "/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Autoloader.php";  

//register autoloader  

Twig_Autoloader::register();  

//loader for template files  

$loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('templates');  

//twig instance  

$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader, array('cache' => 'cache'));  

//load template file  

$template = $twig->loadTemplate('index.html');  

//render a template  

echo $template->render(array('title' => 'Welcome to Twig template'));

find more info on this Tutorial

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