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| Software: QuickSkin |
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| Version: 5.0 |
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| Contact: andy.prevost@worxteam.com |
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| Info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickskin |
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| Support: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickskin |
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| Author: Andy Prevost andy.prevost@worxteam.com (admin) |
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| Author: Manuel 'EndelWar' Dalla Lana endelwar@aregar.it (former admin) |
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| Author: Philipp v. Criegern philipp@criegern.com (original founder) |
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| Copyright (c) 2002-2009, Andy Prevost. All Rights Reserved. |
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| * NOTE: QuickSkin is the SmartTemplate project renamed. SmartTemplate |
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| information and downloads can still be accessed at the |
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| smarttemplate.sourceforge.net site |
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| License: Distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) |
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| http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html |
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| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful - WITHOUT |
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| ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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| FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
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| We offer a number of paid services: |
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| - Web Hosting on highly optimized fast and secure servers |
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| - Technology Consulting |
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| - Oursourcing (highly qualified programmers and graphic designers) |
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Last modified: January 01 2009 ~*/
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For documentation, please see the 'DOCS' folder.
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QuickSkin v5.0
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickskin
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Copyright (c) 2002-2009, Andy Prevost. All Rights Reserved.
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QuickSkin is a Template Engine that was designed to support web based
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applications of any size. It is particularly suited to large scale applications
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like Content Management Systems. The project was originally started by
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Philipp v. Criegern and named "SmartTemplate". The project was then taken over
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by Manuel 'EndelWar' Dalla Lana and HonestQiao. The name of the project back
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then led to confusion with Smarty Templating. Despite its advantages over other
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templating systems (speed, small footprint, ease of use, power), SmartTemplate
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has not been updated and had many outstanding bugs. Codeworx Technologies has
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been using SmartTemplate on a variety of projects for several years. Over that
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time we have become very familiar with the code. We have now taken over the
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project. Our first task was to rename the project to make it less confusing,
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fix the bugs, and extend its capabilities -- while maintaining its core
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simplicity and ease of use.
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What's so special about it?
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Common template engines work like the following: Your PHP script specifies an
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HTML template and assigns some dynamic content to display. The template parser
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replaces all placeholders within the template with the assigned content and
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displays it to the user. This means a lot of string processing and regular
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expression work each time you want to display some content.
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QuickSkin works like a 'template compiler' that converts templates into executable
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PHP code and stores it for later reuse. The first time a new template is processed,
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all placeholders in the template are replaced by small PHP code elements that
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print the assigned content. The HTML template fragment <H3>{TITLE}</H3>, for
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example, is converted into something like <H3><?php echo $TITLE; ?></H3>. If you
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have assigned your content to the right variables, there is no need for any
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template parsing anymore. The only thing that has to be done is to include and
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execute the compiled template. This usually increases the execution time of the
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template engine dramatically.
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QuickSkin supports:
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- Simple Scalar Substitution (Strings, etc.)
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- Block Iterations (nested Arrays / LOOP..ENDLOOP)
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- Basic Control Structures (IF..ELSEIF..ELSE)
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- Custom Extension (Output filters, uppercase, sprintf, etc.)
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- Template Compilation (HTML templates are converted to executable PHP Code)
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- Output Caching (Accelerates your applications by reusing page output)
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- Tested and works with PHP4 and PHP5 (5.2.4)
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If you successfully deploy QuickSkin with your applications, please add text
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link or link the QuickSkin button back to
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickskin/.
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Please let us know about your usage, so we can keep track of the sites using
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QuickSkin.
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Andy Prevost.
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