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skylarkelty/spark
=================

A high-performance Template Parser designed to work inside a full templating engine or alongside an application.

1.1.1(12y ago)3172[1 PRs](https://github.com/SkylarKelty/Spark/pulls)Apache License v2.0PHPPHP >=5.3

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Spark
=====

[](#spark)

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*The 300 line template parser*

A high-performance Template Parser designed to work inside a full templating engine or alongside an application. Whilst Spark can be used on its own it includes a very limited set of features and is really only designed to work alongside a larger system.

Requires:

- PHP 5.3 (or above)

Spark takes a HTML page and tokenises all tags within a specified namespace (e.g. <Spark\*>) it then runs through user-specified callbacks for each token and replaces the token with the result.

The result of this project is a very simple template parser that can be hooked up to a more fully-featured templating engine.

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$spark = new Spark\Core\Spark();
print $spark->run('');

```

### Adding a tag

[](#adding-a-tag)

```
$spark = new Spark\Core\Spark();

$spark->addTag("Example", function($html, $inner) {
    return "Hello World!";
});

print $spark->run('');

```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92% 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

4

Last Release

4705d ago

Major Versions

0.1a → 1.0.02013-08-03

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5101668?v=4)[Skylar Kelty](/maintainers/SkylarKelty)[@SkylarKelty](https://github.com/SkylarKelty)

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Top Contributors

[![SkylarKelty](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5101668?v=4)](https://github.com/SkylarKelty "SkylarKelty (92 commits)")[![keiouu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/725383?v=4)](https://github.com/keiouu "keiouu (8 commits)")

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Tags

templatetemplating

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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