TinyButStrong

Infobox_Software
name = TinyButStrong

developer =
latest_release_version= 3.4.0
latest_release_date = release_date|2008|06|16
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Template Engine
license =
website = http://www.tinybutstrong.com/

TinyButStrong is a template engine written in PHP. Programmers and web developers may use it for Web development. TinyButStrong is a PHP class that separates PHP from HTML. It does not work like Smarty or vlibTemplate, which allow IF statements and create blocks like WHILE in PHP. In TBS you can grab a particular tag from the 'inside' content part. This allows TBS to be used with very strict WYSIWYG HTML or XML editors - like OpenOffice or Word 2007.

Code example

Since TinyButStrong separates PHP from HTML, you have two files:

[var.body_text]

As you can see this file contains plain HTML and the template variable " [var.body_text] ". In contrast to other template engines the PHP script does not contain methods like "assign". All global PHP variables can be used in the template (an option can limit the access of global variables from the template):

require_once 'tbs/tbs_class.php';

$tmpl = new clsTinyButStrong;$tmpl->LoadTemplate('tmpl/basic.htm');

$title_text = 'TITLE: This is the TBS basic example ...';$body_text = 'BODY: This is the message using TinyButStrong template engine.';

$tmpl->Show();

This is how a table row and its content can be dynamically generated by manipulating the content.xml file in an OpenOffice Writer document(odt) using TBS. Notice that the block definition is simply a content of the xml - capturing the tag representing a row of the table (table:table-row) from the inside. Most other template engines either do not produce valid xml templates or use their own namespace incompatible with OpenOffice or Office2007.

[bd;block=table:table-row] [bd.itemcontent] [bd.optioncontent]

The above structure is simply generated by entering the TBS tags within the cells of a Writer table like this:

A plugin for TBS exists that automates the use of odt files with TBS.

External links

*en icon [http://www.tinybutstrong.com/ TinyButStrong]
* [http://www.tinybutstrong.com/download.php tinybutstrong.com - Download]
*en icon [http://www.tinybutstrong.com/manual.php tinybutstrong.com - Manual]
*de icon [http://lamp.clausvb.de/tbs_mhtml/table_of_content.html Introduction and tutorial]
* [http://www.tinybutstrong.com/forum.php tinybutstrong.com - Forum]
* [http://vlib.clausvb.de/benchmarks/ Benchmarks]