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A Template engine written in PHP that use JSON format as data?

I need a Template engine written in PHP that use JSON file as it's data. The popular engine that I love it's template format was Mustache.php but what I understood from it's documentation, data for this engine is PHP classes that is not very pretty format.

What I need is something like this:

Data in JSON + {{A Pretty Template that use curly braces for objects}} = A clean HTML

And of course I want this engine to do the compiling on the server. Your comments are appreciated.

Solution

  • Use json_decode function to decode JSON data into PHP Objects, like:

    require '/path/to/mustache/src/Mustache/Autoloader.php';
Mustache_Autoloader::register();

$mustache = new Mustache_Engine();

$tpl = $mustache->loadTemplate('foo'); // loads __DIR__.'/views/foo.mustache';
echo $tpl->render(json_decode('my_data.json'));