/Meek

A very meek template engine in PHP.

Primary LanguagePHP

Meek 0.2

Humble template engine for small websites

http://intenseminimalism.com
Copyright (C) 2011, Davide Casali
Licensed under BSD Opensource License.

WHAT IS MEEK

It's a humble & lightweight PHP engine to build small websites. Meek maps directly URL to files and templates with a neat fallback system.

HOW TO USE MEEK

  1. Download or git clone git@github.com:folletto/Meek.git
  2. Edit .htaccess
  3. Write your templates inside templates/ folder.
  4. Write your content in pages/ folder.
  5. (optional) Write any constant variable in cfg.json.

MEEK URL MAPPING

If we imagine Meek installed at http://example.org/app/, in its simplest form the URL mapping does this:

Simple right?

It does also a couple other tricks:

  1. PAGES AUTO-FALLBACK
    If pages/path.to.file.php is missing, it will try to load, in order:
    pages/path.to.php
    pages/path.php
    pages/404.php
    In this way you can build a kind of controller that reads the next URL token from the pre-parsed array at: $this->virtual_uri and load the named item.

  2. TEMPLATES AUTO-FALLBACK
    If templates/tpl.path.to.file.php is missing, it will try to load (like pages), in order:
    templates/tpl.path.to.php
    templates/tpl.path.php
    templates/tpl.php
    In this way you can control very well what's going to appear on each page. You can even create a templates/tpl.api.php template that returns JSON or XML and build a simple API.

BUGS AND FEEDBACK

Submit your bugs here: http://github.com/Folletto/Meek/issues
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Folletto

CHANGELOG

  • 0.2

    • Markdown support for pages

  • 0.1

    • First prototype