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    "title": "Qiq Templates for PHP 8",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "html": "<p>I'm happy to announce the first release of <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com\">Qiq</a>, a template system for developers who prefer native PHP templates -- but with a light dusting of syntax sugar when you want it. It offers <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/partials.html\">partials</a>, <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/layouts.html\">layouts</a>, <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/sections.html\">sections</a>, and a wide range of HTML helpers for <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/helpers/general.html\">tags</a> and <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/helpers/forms.html\">forms</a>, along with explicit but concise <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com/1.x/syntax.html#1-2-1\">escaping</a>.</p>\n<p>I don't like compiled templates or specialized template languages. Smarty, Twig, etc., are all just too heavy-handed. I don't need a new language, and I don't need to \"secure\" my templates against designers on my team. I am generally happy with plain PHP as a template language.</p>\n<p>However, I do find escaping tedious -- necessary, and easy enough, but tedious. A template helper to output escaped HTML, like this ...</p>\n<pre><code>&lt;?= $this-&gt;h($var) ?&gt;\n</code></pre>\n<p>... is not that bad -- but even so, it could be a <em>little</em> easier. Imagine this little bit of syntax sugar:</p>\n<pre><code>{{h $var }}\n</code></pre>\n<p>All that happens is that <code>{{h ... }}</code> is replaced with <code>&lt;?= $this-&gt;h(...) ?&gt;</code>.</p>\n<p>Once that is in place, it becomes easy to support helpers, control structures, and other code, all while keeping native PHP as the fallback syntax, because the <code>{{ ... }}</code> tags are essentially stand-ins for PHP tags.</p>\n<p>Qiq is PHP -- just with some syntax sugar. <a href=\"http://qiqphp.com\">Try it out</a> on your next project!</p>\n"
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