About

The story behind the Dwoo PHP template engine.

Overview

Dwoo is a PHP5 template engine that was started in early 2008. The idea came from the fact that Smarty, a well-known template engine, was getting older and carrying the weight of its age — old features inconsistent with newer ones, and an architecture written for PHP4 that didn't take advantage of PHP5's more advanced OOP features.

Hence Dwoo was born, hoping to provide a more up-to-date and stronger engine. It has proven to be faster than Smarty in many areas, and it provides a compatibility layer to allow developers who have been using Smarty for years to switch their applications over to Dwoo progressively.

Dwoo 2 is the new version of this template engine, rewritten from scratch to take advantage of PHP7 features, namespaces, and modern coding standards.

Stats

160+ GitHub Stars
27,000+ Downloads
60+ Available Plugins

License

Dwoo is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL-3.0), which means you can use it in both open source and commercial projects.

Meet the Authors

David Sanchez

Maintainer since 2013, creating releases since v1.2

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Jordi Boggiano

Creator of Dwoo, releases until v1.1.1

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Contributors

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