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codemix/handlebarsphp
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Transpiles handlebars templates into native PHP templates.

v0.0.2(12y ago)6201MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Jul 2Pushed 12y agoCompare

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HandlebarsPHP
=============

[](#handlebarsphp)

### Note: this is alpha quality software, use at your own risk.

[](#note-this-is-alpha-quality-software-use-at-your-own-risk)

Turns handlebars templates into executable PHP code ahead of time, ships with built in support for Yii 1.x. but allows customisation of output to support different frameworks.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Install via composer, package name is `codemix/handlebarsphp`.

Differences from HandlebarsJS
=============================

[](#differences-from-handlebarsjs)

HandlebarsPHP aims to be compatible with a subset of HandlebarsJS. For performance reasons it compiles the templates ahead of time and this necessitates some restrictions.

1. Since it's impossible to tell whether a tag like `{{foo}}` is a helper or a property at compile time, we assume that its a property. We differentiate helpers by looking for arguments, for example `{{foo 1}}` will be interpretted as a function call because it has an argument. This means that it is impossible to call a helper with zero arguments.
2. `{{@key}}` and `{{@index}}` always point to the same variable, because `foreach` is used for all iteration.

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 31% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~3 days

Total

2

Last Release

4743d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3acf6b979253030380f45271ce4efc9d5f3a207a96fafe6c92da41876ae33b24?d=identicon)[codemix](/maintainers/codemix)

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Top Contributors

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