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davewid/owl
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A class based View library for 5.3+

1.2.2(13y ago)323MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Jun 19Pushed 13y ago1 watchersCompare

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Owl
===

[](#owl)

Owl is a view library that can interface with different template rendering engines. Owl uses [Mustache](https://github.com/bobthecow/mustache.php) as the default rendering engine. Requires PHP 5.3+.

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

As of version 1.2.x you can now use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) to install the Owl library. Owl is hosted on [Packagist](http://packagist.org/packages/davewid/owl)so all you will need to add to the require section of composer.json file is below.

```
"require":{
	....
	"davewid/owl": "1.2.*"
	....
}
```

Alternatively you can visit the [downloads](https://github.com/daveWid/Owl/downloads)page and click on the latest version to grab the files. If you download the files from github you will need to setup autoloading by hand.

PHP-FIG
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[](#php-fig)

Owl is in compliance with [PSR-0](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md)and [PSR-1](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-1-basic-coding-standard.md)

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

The Owl library strives for flexibility in rendering engines and finding files. Unfortunately this flexibility adds a few more steps in the setup process. Below are the two things you can inject, the rendering engine and the file finder.

### Engine

[](#engine)

By default, a Mustache rendering engine is setup. If you would like to use a different engine you can set it with `setEngine`. Your engine will have to implement the `\Owl\Engine` interface. The rendering engine is shared between any view and layout classes you use in a request, so you only need to set the engine once per request.

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