CHAPTER 8
Templates
At the heart of MVC is separation of concerns, and nowhere in our framework is that more important than between the view and the controller. Typically, when one thinks about the front end (or client side) of an application, they think of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Throw in server-side interaction, and an unavoidable portion of PHP enters the picture.
What’s worse is we will often need to work with data, supplied to us by the controller, using PHP directly in our views. Many people have tried solving this problem with template languages (and parsers). It might not make a whole lot of sense—substituting PHP for yet another intermediary ...
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