Tplix — a modern PHP template engine for clean, fast, and scalable web development
What is Tplix?
Tplix (/diː-wu:/)
(stylized as Tplix) is a modern, flexible and oriented object template engine for PHP, facilitating the
separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic.
Tplix is a modern, object-oriented template engine for PHP that helps developers separate application logic from presentation with ease.
Originally inspired by Dwoo, Tplix has grown into its own project—bringing improved stability, updated features, and compatibility with modern PHP standards.
With a clean syntax and support for reusable templates, plugins, and extensions, Tplix enables faster development while keeping code organized, readable, and maintainable..
What is a Template Engine?
As we continue to develop complex web applications, it is becoming more important to have a wall
of separation between application logic and display logic so that back-end
developers and front-end developers can collaborate on the same areas of the website without
having to step around each other’s code.
A template engine solves this situation by providing a concise syntax front-end developers can
use to display data prepared by back-end developers. The front-end developers experience the
benefit of clean and pretty views they can read and modify, and in-turn the back-end developers
can free themselves of the responsibility of maintaining the views.
It’s a win-win.
Tplix for Developers
Tplix is built with modern PHP in mind, following established PHP Standards Recommendations (PSR) including PSR-1 for basic coding, PSR-2 for style, and PSR-4 for autoloading. This ensures clean, consistent, and future-proof code.
Easy InstallationThe Tplix library is available on Packagist.org , making it simple to install and manage via Composer in any PHP project.
Performance & CompatibilityTplix is optimized for speed with built-in caching and a powerful compiler system to deliver faster rendering. It is fully compatible with PHP 7.4+ and PHP 8.x, ensuring reliability in modern applications.
Extensible by DesignWith a flexible plugin architecture, Tplix makes it easy to customize behavior or extend functionality. Developers can quickly create their own plugins using the well-documented API.
Developer FriendlyTplix includes configuration support for Docker and PHPUnit, streamlining testing and development across different PHP versions.
Tplix for Designers
Without forgetting frontend developers, Tplix provide a complete documentation to learn Tplix
syntax. Following the same syntax has Smarty, designers can easily make a smooth transition
from one to another.
Tplix is very easy to use and understand, it provide a lots of plugins allowing designers to
handle data directly in their part.
Adapters
Tplix offers adapters that help developers integrate it into web frameworks.
Originally Tplix, offers adapters for web frameworks such as CakePHP, Zend Framework, Code
Igniter, Agavi and Yii.
Since the version 1.3.6 a new adapter for Symfony is now available.
