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phileTemplateLex

Use the Lex parser in your templates for PhileCMS

1.1 Installation (composer)

php composer.phar require phile/template-lex:*

1.2 Installation (Download)

• Install the latest version of Phile
• Clone this repo into plugins/phile/templateLex

2. Activation

After you have installed the plugin. You need to add the following line to your config.php file:

$config['plugins']['phile\\templateLex'] = array('active' => true);

Install Lex via composer

Just add the Lex dependency to your composer.json file:

{
  "require": {
    "twig/twig": "1.14.*",
    "michelf/php-markdown": "1.3",
    "pyrocms/lex": "2.2.*" // this is the new line you will need
  }
}

Now run your composer install command as normal.

Modify your config.php file:

$config['plugins'] = array(
  // disable the Twig template engine
  'phile\\templateTwig' => array('active' => false),
  // enable the Lex template engine
  'phile\\templateLex' => array('active' => true)
);

Disclaimer

Due to the nature of the Page model in Phile, and the fact that Lex doesn't like some objects, there are some slightly different properties available to the pages array.

• title
• url
• content
• meta

This covers most of the things that the pages array covers in Twig.

Not a drop in replacement for Twig

If you have not used Lex before, please read the docs because there are a few differences in syntax, and philosophy, over Twig.

I have included an index.lex file to show how to recreate the index page from the default theme.

Why use this over Twig

• Different syntax (all curly braces, no {% %} braces)
• Lighter weight (but this is debatable)
• Much simpler than Twig or Smarty (less functions)