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chh/meta-template
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Templating solution with adapters to many engines.

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MetaTemplate
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[](#metatemplate)

*A library which provides adapters to different PHP templating engines*

Install
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[](#install)

MetaTemplate follows the PSR-0 standard for class loading, so its classes can be loaded with every compliant autoloader, such as `Zend_Loader` or the Symfony Classloader.

Installation is easy, just register the `MetaTemplate` namespace with your autoloader and point it to the directory where you copied the contents of the `lib` directory to.

Basic Usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

Most of the time you will be consuming engines via the `Template` class. It provides some methods, which take a filename and return a template instance.

MetaTemplate ships with these adapters/engines by default:

- `PHPTemplate`, mapped to `.php` and `.phtml`
- `PhpSass`, mapped to `.sass` and `.scss`
- `MarkdownTemplate` (requires [php-markdown](http://github.com/michelf/php-markdown) to be loaded), mapped to `.md` and `.markdown`
- `LessTemplate` (requires Less to be installed via node), mapped to `.less` (Requires Symfony\_Process 2)
- `MustacheTemplate` (requires [phly\_mustache](http://github.com/weierophinney/phly_mustache)), mapped to `.mustache`

The `MetaTemplate\Template` class has a static `create` method, which creates template instances from a given path.

For example:

```