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Package vlib-template5
Short Description Updated legacy tempating engine vLibTemplate package for use in PHP8+
License Artistic-2.0 license
Homepage https://github.com/edgarsstrods/vLibTemplate5
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Informations about the package vlib-template5
vLibTemplate 5 for php8
This package aims to extend life for legacy PHP projects still using vLibTemplate library and wanting to use it with Composer
Original library
Library is originally created by: Kelvin Jones, Stefan Deußen and Claus van Beek
Official Website is http://vlib.clausvb.de/index.php/Main_Page The official site is not working correctly anymore.
Original library download link: SourceForge
Copy of documentation for original library: https://acdh-oeaw.github.io/vLIB/docs/vlib.clausvb.de/docs/vlibTemplate_english/table_of_content.html
The purpose
The original package was created 20+ years ago and refers in code to PHP4&5 that is very outdated now. Many projects still run perfectly fine using this library, but migrating to latest PHP might be problematic, so this modified new version could help this transfer. The last original library version was 4.2.1 this project uses version 5.0.0 as starting point.
The aim of this package:
- Modify the original classes as little as possible, to keep maximum compatibility with existing code
- Remove any functions marked as deprecated for latest stable PHP version
- Make it PHP8.4+ compatible
- Add types, modernize code syntax.
- Publish in Packagist for easy install
- Try to minimise the implementation/configuration work
- Countinue to keep package compatible in next PHP versions
- All includes moved to autoload
- Reduce clutter and package size, removing outdated parts (see next)
This package implements (at least for now) only these parts:
- vLibTemplate
- vLibTemplateCache
- vLibInit
Other parts as vlibDate, Swift, vlibMimeMail, vlibSearchToSQL, etc. are NOT included! I doubt they will ever be (I do no need them :) ) and for email it is better to implement modern alternatives. But if someone finds useful to add some of these parts - welcome to contribute!
Original, but modified classes are put under namespace "Original". If you can not use Composer, but need PHP8 compatibility - you can try to hack with "includes" this folders source in your existing project. This is reason the class names are not changed, but put under namespace.
Usage
Installation
Example codes
Bare minimum without vlibIni (not recomended) or only for single-page aplications.
Normal use, with vlibIni (recomended)
Be awere
This new version does not gurantee any security improvements. As in this old code some bugs somebody could use as "feature" - mostly all logic is kept as is.
Speaking of changes:
- By default now non-array variables used in setLoop are set ar empty arrays. This can be turned off by "LOOP_NOT_ARRAY_OVERRIDE" param.
- Default
CACHE_DIRECTORYis set tosys_get_temp_dir(). This is ok, for testing and dev, but highly unadvisible in production environments. - DB engine list in
setDbLoop()has been shortend and is not tested(!). No way for me to test all engines and depraceted functions where removed. I do not use this function and recomend to convert data to array first and then usesetLoop(). - One more reminder that classes in
src/Originalare modified, let the folder name not confuse you! :)
Contributing
Welcome contributions! For now I do not know if this project is helpful to anyone elso except me. No guidlines, just contact me.
Contributors
License
The original licence is kept under LICENSE.txt
Support
If I have helped to migrate a project and saved a lot of work - buy me a coffee, thanks! :)
