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Library for building web interfaces using templates, on the backend.

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Templated UI
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Experimental library for building interfaces using templates, on the backend.

Basic Elements
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Templated UI builds on top of Smarty syntax and provides a more convenient way to extend it. Unlike recommended way to build extensions, as functions, Templated UI extensions are built as classes with following goals in mind:

1. **Composability** - Use all the PHP's object features to compose your extensions: inheritance, interfaces, traits, encapsulation etc,
2. **Strict Types** - Use PHP's type system to ensure that your extensions are used correctly, with centralized type checking,
3. **Dependency Injection Ready** - Provide all dependencies as constructor arguments,
4. **Easy to Test, and Refactor** - Use standard refactorings and testing tools to work with your extensions.

There are three types of extensions that Templated UI provides out of the box:

1. **Tags** - Similar to function calls, or HTML's self-closing elements, they have a name, and accept any number of arguments,
2. **Blocks** - Blocks are similar to tags, but they can have content, and they can be nested,
3. **Modifiers** - Modifiers are used to modify the output of variables. For example, you can output dates in different formats, or escape HTML.

Tags are commonly used as functions, that receive a number of arguments, and output some HTML. We can define a tag by extending `Tag` class:

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