twig

http://twig.sensiolabs.org/

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)