twig

http://twig.sensiolabs.org/

Twig recipes

Why use it as a php developer

• Reduce php verbosity
• easy to learn and less error prone by comparison with plain php

Main features

• Syntax {{}} as in handlebars
• Conditional structure to iterate on an array

{% for user in users %}
    * {{ user.name }}
{% else %}
    No users have been found.
{% endfor %}

• multiple inheritance, blocks, automatic output-escaping

{{ var }}
{{ var|e }}         {# shortcut to escape a variable #}

• perfomance : compile to plain php (minimum overhead compared to php)

• Dumpa a variable (an object...) {{ dump(recipe) }}

Include, extends, blocks

http://www.sitepoint.com/extending-twig-templates-inheritance-filters-and-functions/

Jade / Twig comparison

• Twig extends / Single inheritance = Jades extends / Multiple inheritance
• Twig includes / Jade include
• Twig MACRO = Jade Mixins http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/tags/macro.html