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PaulboCo

The projects I've built with Fuel thus far have used native PHP templates.
I've just started a new project using Smarty - which I really liked pre-Fuel.
But, I'm finding that I miss using PHP templates because it's so cumbersome to use Fuel's cool classes with Smarty. Any suggestions for more Fuel-Friendly parsers would be appreciated. Basically, I would be happy with a parser that simply makes the following replacements:
'{' ='<?php '
'{$' = '<?php echo '
'}' = '; ?>' Or, something similar.

huglester

There are parsers repository under https://github.com/fuel/parser
have you checked it? it even has simple tags, which do really simple tags implemetation for heavier things - you can use twig or smth like that

Davide Bellini

Yeah, in the Fuel parser package you can find support for Twig, Smarty, Dwoo, Jade, ... For some parsers ( also Smarty ), you can set delimiters in package config file :
https://github.com/fuel/parser/blob/develop/config/parser.php For performance reasons I discourage you to use Smarty ... if you need an advanced template parser ( as suggested by @huglester ) I can suggest Twig. Take a look to this Fabien Potencier's blog article with benchmarks :
http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in-php

PaulboCo

Thanks for the suggestions, Guys.
And, thanks for recommending Twig @Davide Bellini. I will give it a try.

PaulboCo

How does one take advantage of Fuel's classes such as \Form::open() within a Twig or Smarty template? For example, I really like using Form::open() knowing that it will output the following HTML:

<form action="CURRENT_URI" accept-charset="utf-8" method="post">

Looking ahead to when HTML8 is about to be deprecated, I can trust that the Fuel developers will modify Form::open() to output a browser-friendly opening form tag for that day. Otherwise, I will have to edit all my templates to comply.

huglester

I believe you you should write a plugin, or smth. not sure really.
I remmeber when I needed some funcctionality in smarty - I was making plugins

Davide Bellini

Exactly ...
You can create a Twig extension that use Fuel Form class ... Read this for how to create an extension :
http://www.twig-project.org/doc/extensions.html

PaulboCo

Thanks @Huglester & @Davide Bellini! As you two suggested, Twig is clean and fast. I've spent the day auditioning every vendor in Fuel's parser package. I found that I could use multiple parsers simply by adding their file extension to the view filepath. WoW! My problem is solved.
When I want to use Fuel's Html/Input/Fieldset or whatever class in my template, I put that in a partial view that uses the .php file extension.

PaulboCo

I think I have Twig like I want it now.
I can use code like this in my templates - taking advantage of Fuel's classes.

{{ Html('hr') }}

<p>
        {{ Form('open', {}, ['type', 'id']) }}
        {{ Form('input', 'value', value, {'style': 'border:solid 1px;'}) }}
        {{ Form('submit') }}
        {{ Form('close') }}
</p>

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

Davide Bellini

And you can use Fuel Debug::dump() method like a Twig filter with : Twig_ext.php

<?php

class Fuel_Twig_Extension extends Twig_Extension
&#123;
 // Project name
 public function getName()
 &#123;
  return 'fuel_twig';
 }

 // Filters
 public function getFilters()
 &#123;
  return array(
   'dump' => new Twig_Filter_Function(__CLASS__.'::filter_dump'),
  );
 }

 //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // FILTERS
 //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /**
  * Debug a variable
  * @param any  Variable to debug
  * @return void Debug dump
  */
 public static function filter_dump($var)
 &#123;
  return \Debug::dump($var);
 }

}

In controller :

$twig = \Parser\View_Twig::parser();
include_once APPPATH.'vendor'.DS.'Twig_ext.php';
$twig->addExtension(new \Fuel_Twig_Extension());

In templates :

&#123;&#123; variable|dump }}

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