Hyena Template Engine
Summary:
Hyena is developed as a simple template engine designed to make web sites
easier to design and develop. It is designed to work in both PHP 4 and 5.
One feature borrowed from Smarty, is the compile/re-compile only when nessasary.
On first run all the templates are compiled and copied to the page directory and then
on every hit, if the template in template directory has not been modified since
first compile, it will load the template from the page directory. This feature
saves unnessasary overhead being used.
Important note: feel free to customize it as you deem nessasary for your site
or project. But please DO NOT resell it. If you make customizations or extensions
that you think would benefit everyone using the engine, please forward a copy to me
so that i can update the archive.
Instrcutions:
1) To install the engine, just unzip the archive and dump into your web root or
folder you wish to use this engine in.
2) Change the following in your configure.php file to match the set up to use.
TEMPLATE, INCLUDES, URL, PAGE
Example:
URL: Address to where hyena is installed
-> http://www.yoursite.com/hyena(or where you installed Hyena)
TEMPLATE: Where you store your template files are stored
On Linux-> /path/to/your/webdocs/hyena(or where you installed Hyena)/template
On Windows->c:\\path\\to\\webdocs\\hyena(or where you installed Hyena)\\template
PAGE: Where your compiled templates reside
On Linux-> /path/to/your/webdocs/hyena(or where you installed Hyena)/page
On Windows->c:\\path\\to\\webdocs\\hyena(or where you installed Hyena)\\page
3) Change permissions to 0755 on Page and Template directories. This is required to
write out the compiled template files.
Thats it, your ready to go.
To Add new template tags to hyena, just open includes/tags.php and add them to the
templatags array and the templareps array. Note: Add them in the same order in both
arrays or you will not get the expected results.
There are 3 predefined tags in the tags.php file:
1) <--DATE--> this will print out the current date and time.
2) <--URL--> this will print out the current URL as defined in configure.php.
3) <--IMAGES--> this will add the images directory off the current url.
You can also use a database if your site requires one by adding your own php code to the
template file that requires it.
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