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crodas/artifex
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Macros on steroids. The easiest way of generating code.

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Artifex
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[](#artifex)

Artifex is a [pre-processor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprocessor) for PHP. It aims to generate PHP code in a very simple and intuitive way.

Syntax
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Artifex syntax is heavily inspired by C preprocessors, but instead of starting with `#` (which is a comment in PHP), they starts with `#*`

```
#* $foo = $foo + 1
```

Artifex also support multiline in a convinient way.

```
#*
# $foo = $foo + 2
# $bar = $foo + $foo->xxx();
```

In order to replace a value, it must be surrounded by `__`, for instance:

```