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mario-deluna/tattoo
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A simple hyper text programming language

77PHP

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Tattoo Language
===============

[](#tattoo-language)

Tattoo is a simple hyper text programming / template language that renders into HTML.

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```
h1 => 'Welcome to Tattoo :)'

```

*There are still PHP5.3 users and I don't want to discriminate these outlaws. Means Tattoo works from 5.3 to 7.*

**Tattoo is not finished but in heavy development.**

Tell me more!
-------------

[](#tell-me-more)

A programming language written in PHP that compiles into PHP? When all you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail hu?

There is no real use case where you would build a stand alone Tattoo application. So making Tattoo work as a library seemed to be best way to go. Why PHP? Huge community, pretty fast and Im used to the syntax.

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

[](#installation)

Composer, whoop whoop.

```
$ composer require mario-deluna/tattoo

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$tattoo = new Tattoo\Tattoo(array('cache' => 'path/to/my/cache/dir/'));

echo $tattoo->render('/path/to/a/tattoofile.tto', array(
	'name' => $_GET['name'],
));
```

```
h1.page-title => 'Hello ' % @name

```

The great goal
--------------

[](#the-great-goal)

After years of developing web applications I've got kind of sick that the only thing that always stayed a mess was the HTML markup. So there was this idea stuck in my head of a templating engine that actually was a programming language.

Let me show you an example:

```