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flow/flow
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Fast PHP templating engine

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Flow - Fast PHP Templating Engine
=================================

[](#flow---fast-php-templating-engine)

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

Flow began life as a major fork of the original Twig templating engine by Armin Ronacher, which he made for [Chyrp](http://chyrp.net/), a now-defunct blogging engine. Flow features template inheritance, includes, macros, custom helpers, whitespace control and many little features that make writing templates enjoyable. Flow tries to give a consistent and coherent experience in writing clean templates. Flow compiles each template into its own PHP class; used in conjunction with PHP's OPcache, this makes Flow a very fast and efficient templating engine. Templates can be read from files, loaded from string arrays, or even from databases with relative ease.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

The easiest way to install is by using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/); the minimum composer.json configuration is:

```
{
    "require": {
        "flow/flow": "0.7.*"
    }
}

```

Flow requires PHP 7 or newer.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Using Flow in your code is straight forward:

```