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Simple C Template library to expand placeholders in a template string, simple alternative to mustache.github.io that doesn't require JSON as data input. The main focus of this project is accessibility, making it easy and fast to hack into any project.
make clean
make
make test- Add template_functions.c and template_function.h to your project and build process.
- Add
#include "template_functions.h"in your program. - Start coding, easy!
Say you want to generate an HTML file from the template below in C:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>{{data.title}}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{data.title}}</h1>
{{data.body}}
</body>
</html>While libraries like https://gitlab.com/jobol/mustach/ exist for this type of task, there are simply not simple enough! The Mustache C implementation requires than you submit the data via JSON which opens up another can of worms in C. Not natively supported in C and the available libraries are not easy to use at all. With simplectemplate you submit your data as string arrays.
Example code:
const char *keys[] = { "title", "body" };
const char *values[] = {
"My super cool website",
"Put whatever you want in the body! Heck, even another rendered template ;)"
};
// Render the template and replace the template variables
char *template = render_template("<!DOCTYPE html> \n\
<html> \n\
<head> \n\
<meta charset="UTF-8"> \n\
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> \n\
<title>{{data.title}}</title> \n\
</head> \n\
<body> \n\
<h1>{{data.title}}</h1> \n\
{{data.body}} \n\
</body> \n\
</html>", 2, keys, values);
printf("%s\n", template);OR
const char *data[] = {
"title", "My super cool website",
"body", "Put whatever you want in the body! Heck, even another rendered template ;)"
};
// Render the template and replace the template variables
char *template = render_template2("<!DOCTYPE html> \n\
<html> \n\
<head> \n\
<meta charset="UTF-8"> \n\
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> \n\
<title>{{data.title}}</title> \n\
</head> \n\
<body> \n\
<h1>{{data.title}}</h1> \n\
{{data.body}} \n\
</body> \n\
</html>", 2, data);
printf("%s\n", template);OR
const char *keys[] = { "title", "body" };
const char *values[] = {
"My super cool website",
"Put whatever you want in the body! Heck, even another rendered template ;)"
};
// Render the template and replace the template variables
char *template = render_template_file("./templates/index.html", 2, keys, values);
printf("%s\n", template);OR
const char *data[] = {
"title", "My super cool website",
"body", "Put whatever you want in the body! Heck, even another rendered template ;)"
};
// Render the template and replace the template variables
char *template = render_template_file2("./templates/index.html", 2, data);
printf("%s\n", template);Outputs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>My super cool website</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My super cool website</h1>
Put whatever you want in the body! Heck, even another rendered template ;)
</body>
</html>