templater | Converts PHP into Twig templates

templater is a PHP library. templater has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

I developed this library for a project where I had to replace the legacy PHP templates to Twig templates. The job was enormous: we had more than 16,000 PHP tags (sometimes with dozens of lines) in 400+ files. So thanks to Templater I managed to successfully convert (almost barely) with automatic techniques, the 92% of the different tags, and the 85% of all the tags (the majority of the difference comes from the fact that block endings, like "}" cannot be converted without extra work). So only ~2200 tags remained for manual conversion, but it came evident soon, that it's still too slow for me. Then I introduced "partial conversion", which means that a log file stores those tags which couldn't be fully converted, but some parts of them. It's very safe and useful for long, multiline tags: your templates are not threatened with partially working tags but you can copy the most parts of them to your template file.