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transfiguration/transfiguration
===============================

A light weight templating engine made with php.

1.2.3(8y ago)538MITPHPPHP  ^7.0 || ^7.1 || ^7.2

Since Jan 11Pushed 8y ago2 watchersCompare

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 [![](transfiguration-logo.png)](transfiguration-logo.png)

##### A light-weight template engine

[](#a-light-weight-template-engine)

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### Installation

[](#installation)

PHP versions supported: 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2

---

Install with composer: **(recommended)**

```
composer require transfiguration/transfiguration 1.*

```

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Transfiguration\Transfiguration;
```

---

Download latest realease: [here](https://github.com/svichas/Transfiguration/releases)

---

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$transfiguration = new Transfiguration;
// Setting template html
$transfiguration->html($templateHtml);
// Setting template variables
$transfiguration->data($templateData);
// Setting template base path for require and include.
$transfiguration->requirePath($templatePath);
```

### Rendering template

[](#rendering-template)

This function is printing template html into the page.

```
$transfiguration->render();
```

### Exporting template

[](#exporting-template)

This function returns executed template html.

```
$transfiguration->export();
```

### Transfiguration hooks

[](#transfiguration-hooks)

This method extends Transfiguration templating engine functionality.

```
$transfiguration->hook("header", function($content="") {
	return "{$content}";
});

```

usage in Transfiguration code

```
{{ header 'This is a header.'}}
```

---

Transfiguration code
--------------------

[](#transfiguration-code)

### For loop

[](#for-loop)

```

{{ for $key : $value in var }}
	{{ echo $key . " " . $value}}
{{endfor}}

```

### If statement

[](#if-statement)

```
{{ if $loggedin == true}}
	User logged in!
{{ elseif $guest == true }}
	User is guest!
{{ else }}
 	User not logged in!
{{ endif }}
```

### Print & Echo

[](#print--echo)

```
{{echo "string"}}
```

or

```
{{print "string"}}
```

### Including files

[](#including-files)

```
{{ include 'base/footer.html' }}
```

or

```
{{ require 'base/footer.html' }}
```

### Setting variables

[](#setting-variables)

```
{{ var $varname = "varvalue" }}
```

### Comments

[](#comments)

```
{# This is a comment #}
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~12 days

Total

4

Last Release

3007d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.1PHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0

1.2.2PHP  ^7.0 || ^7.1 || ^7.2

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![svichas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12978171?v=4)](https://github.com/svichas "svichas (116 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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