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Modular Programming with PHP 7
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Modular Programming with PHP 7

by Branko Ajzele
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Templates

Previously we said that controllers accept request and return response. The response, however, can often be any content type. The production of actual content is something controllers delegate to the templating engine. The templating engine then has the capability to turn the response into HTML, JSON, XML, CSV, LaTeX, or any other text-based content type.

In the old days, programmers mixed PHP with HTML into the so called PHP templates (.php and .phtml). Though still used with some platforms, this kind of approach is considered insecure and lacking in many aspects. One of which was cramming business logic into template files.

To address these shortcomings, Symfony packs its own templating language called Twig. Unlike PHP, Twig is meant ...

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ISBN: 9781786462954