PatTemplate Introduction

patTemplate introduction
patTemplate helps you separating the business logic from the layout and the content of your websites.
Using patTemplate, you will no more embedd PHP code directly in your HTML code. Instead you will insert placeholders in your HTML documents, which will be replaced by the actual computed values by your PHP application.

patTemplate for the designer
patTemplate offers you XML-based markup tags to access different parts of your layout files so you can hide, exchange or even repeat parts. This means, that your HTML-designers will need to learn some new tags and their usage. However they do not need to learn a new programming language. In contrast to other template engines, patTemplate takes a declarative approach for the template tags, you will not find any if/else statements or for-loops in the templates.

patTemplate for the developer
If your designer is familiar with the patTemplate syntax, you will have to learn the PHP-API of patTemplate in order to assign the actual values of the placeholders to the template. If you are an experienced PHP developer you will easily grasp the API, as you will not need to learn a lot of new methods.