Is there a PHP Web framework that does NOT use templates?

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Is there a PHP Web framework that does NOT use templates?

386 Views Asked by julien_c At 12 April 2025 at 22:31

I'm looking for a PHP framework that would allow me to create HTML, not through a templating system like Smarty or Twig (which I really don't like), but directly from my view classes, through methods like:

$this->elementStart('div', array('id' => 'header',
                                 'class' => 'cls'));
...
$this->elementEnd('div');

StatusNet does that, but it's not really a general-purpose framework. Are there any frameworks that work that way?

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**DJSunny** · Answer 1

You can check out Yii. There isn't a template's system like Smarty or anything, you just have your view files with HTML and whatever PHP variables you pass over from your controllers.

EDIT: Heres an old example view I found, didn't have a link so I just pasted. The stuff referencing "widget" etc is just components of the framework, not template engine stuff.



    <!-- blueprint CSS framework -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/screen.css" media="screen, projection" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/print.css" media="print" />
    <!--[if lt IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/ie.css" media="screen, projection" />
    <![endif]-->

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/main.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/form.css" />

    <title><?php echo CHtml::encode($this->pageTitle); ?></title>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container" id="page">

    <div id="header">
        <div id="logo"><?php echo CHtml::encode(Yii::app()->name); ?></div>
    </div><!-- header -->

    <div id="mainmenu">
        <?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu',array(
            'items'=>array(
                array('label'=>'Home', 'url'=>array('/site/index')),
                array('label'=>'About', 'url'=>array('/site/page', 'view'=>'about')),
                array('label'=>'Contact', 'url'=>array('/site/contact')),
                array('label'=>'Login', 'url'=>array('/site/login'), 'visible'=>Yii::app()->user->isGuest),
                array('label'=>'Logout ('.Yii::app()->user->name.')', 'url'=>array('/site/logout'), 'visible'=>!Yii::app()->user->isGuest)
            ),
        )); ?>
    </div><!-- mainmenu -->
    <?php if(isset($this->breadcrumbs)):?>
        <?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CBreadcrumbs', array(
            'links'=>$this->breadcrumbs,
        )); ?><!-- breadcrumbs -->
    <?php endif?>

    <?php echo $content; ?>

    <div id="footer">
        Copyright &copy; <?php echo date('Y'); ?> by My Company.<br/>
        All Rights Reserved.<br/>
        <?php echo Yii::powered(); ?>
    </div><!-- footer -->

</div><!-- page -->

    </body>
    </html>

**Ernestas Stankevičius** · Answer 2

Ernestas Stankevičius On 28 September 2011 at 20:19

At this point there is very fast DooPHP. And you can write your own templating over php. But i dont see a point.

**iThink** · Answer 3

iThink On 28 September 2011 at 20:27

yes there is Yii framework.. It allows both. If u dont want to apply any template call use renderPartial() instead of render(). Plz refer to http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.view

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