Lightweight language and template engine which compiles to PHP.
Phoenix is a lightweight language and template engine which allows to program PHP web servers with a more concise and readable syntax.
- Keeps line numbers unchanged to ease development and debugging.
- Extracts inline scripts and style sheets into external files.
- Generates readable code, completely identical to handcrafted code.
- Integrates easily and seamlessly with existing code.
- Automatically watches file modifications for instant recompilation.
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf8"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<style file="style.styl">
.text-color-gold
{
color: #C226D5 + 120deg - 20%;
}
.text-color-green
{
color: #84D5B9 - 50%;
}
</style>
<body>
<?
local
hello,
hobbit,
hobbit_count,
message,
bold,
dwarf_name_array;
import 'imported.php';
include 'included.php';
include 'included.php';
import? 'notfound.php';
include? 'notfound.php';
hello = 'Hello';
function GetMessage(
string first_name,
string last_name
)
{
global
hello;
static local
dear = 'dear';
local
message;
message = hello .. ' ' .. dear .. ' ' .. first_name .. ' ' .. last_name .. ' !';
return message;
}
class HOBBIT
{
attribute
FirstName = '',
LastName = '',
RingCount = 0;
static attribute
HobbitCount = 0;
method constructor(
string first_name,
string last_name,
int ring_count
)
{
.FirstName = first_name;
.LastName = last_name;
.RingCount = ring_count;
self::AddHobbit();
}
method destructor()
{
.RemoveRings( .RingCount );
self::RemoveHobbit();
}
method AddRings(
int ring_count
)
{
.RingCount += ring_count;
}
method RemoveRings(
int ring_count
)
{
.RingCount -= ring_count;
}
static method AddHobbit()
{
self::HobbitCount++;
}
static method RemoveHobbit()
{
self::HobbitCount--;
}
static method GetHobbitCount()
{
return self::HobbitCount;
}
}
hobbit = new HOBBIT( 'Froddo', 'Baggins', 0 );
hobbit.FirstName = 'Bilbo';
hobbit.AddRings( 1 );
hobbit_count = HOBBIT::GetHobbitCount();
message = GetMessage( hobbit.FirstName, hobbit.LastName );
echo '<p>' .. message .. '</p>';
bold = '<b>bold</b>';
dwarf_name_array = array( 'Balin', 'Dwalin', 'Oin', 'Gloin' );
?>
<div>
<p>
There is <% hobbit_count %> hobbit.
</p>
<p>
<% hobbit.FirstName .. ' ' .. hobbit.LastName %> has <% hobbit.RingCount %> ring.
</p>
<p>
<% message %>
</p>
<p>
<# bold #>
</p>
<p class="text-color-green">
There are <% count( dwarf_name_array ) %> dwarves :
</p>
<ul>
<? foreach ( var dwarf_name; dwarf_name_array ) { ?>
<li class="text-color-gold">
<% dwarf_name %>
</li>
<? } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>Most of the PHP syntax is kept unchanged, except that :
.phxfiles contain Phoenix code..phtfiles contain a mix of HTML and Phoenix code...is used to concatenate strings..is used to access class members.thisis implicit when accessing class attributes and methods.$is implicit when using static attributes and declared variables.#prevents the dollar insertion.vardeclares a local variable at first use.localdeclares local variables.attributedeclares class attributes.methoddeclares a class method.constructoris the constructor method.destructoris the destructor method.foreach ( value; array )is the foreach loop syntax.includeincludes a file with a relative path.include?includes a file with a relative path, if it exists.importincludes a file once with a relative path.import?includes a file once with a relative path, if it exists.<??>wraps Phoenix statements.<%%>wraps an escaped expression to output.<##>wraps an unescaped expression to output.
- Local variables and class attributes must be declared.
- The PHP files are generated without grammatical checking.
Install the DMD 2 compiler (using the MinGW setup option on Windows).
Build the executable with the following command line :
dmd -m64 phoenix.dphoenix [options] <input folder> <output_folder>
--extract <tag> <script folder> : extract scripts inside this tag if they have a `file` attribute
--compress : compress lines
--trim : trim lines
--create : create the PHP folders if needed
--watch : watch the Phoenix files for modifications
--pause 500 : time to wait before checking the Phoenix files again
phoenix --extract style STYLE/ --compress --trim --create PHX/ PHP/Converts the Phoenix files of the PHX/ folder into matching PHP files in the PHP/ folder,
extracting style sheets into the STYLE/ folder and creating the output folders if needed.
phoenix --extract style STYLE/ --compress --trim --create --watch PHX/ PHP/Converts the Phoenix files of the PHX/ folder into matching PHP files in the PHP/ folder,
extracting style sheets into the STYLE/ folder and creating the output folders if needed,
then watches the Phoenix files for modifications.
1.0
Eric Pelzer ([email protected]).
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
See the LICENSE.md file for details.