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pHAML
Developer(s) David Moring
Stable release 0.9 (preview release) / August 4, 2007
Operating
system
Cross-platform
Type Template Engine
License BSD License
Website phaml.sourceforge.net [1]
pHAML (PHP XHTML Abstraction Markup Language) is a PHP-centric variant of Haml. Haml is a markup
language that is used to describe the XHTML of any web document without the use of traditional inline coding.
pHAML adds additional PHP capabilities to Haml, beyond those provided by phpHaml, including template
inclusion, variable inclusion, debugging capabilities. pHAML is live software in production in several sites.
pHAML and Haml Similarities
pHAML follows many of the same principle of Haml:
• markup should be beautiful
• Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
• code should be well-indented - Like the Python programming language, indentation is part of the syntax of
pHAML and Haml. Mixing spaces and tabs in indentation can produce unexpected results.
• XHTML structure should be clear.
pHAML uses the same tag syntax as Haml.
pHAML and Haml Differences
This solution was created to enhance Smarty, and also can be integrated into the Zend Framework. There have been
other tweaks to assist in the creation of code. Also, PHP and Ruby share a bit, but are a bit different as well.
• Attributes are literal: there is no Ruby array notation for attribute arrays.
• Spaces are not tied to a multiple of two, but you should make your code spacing consistent in practice.
• There are comments (not just the HTML kind).
• There is no Ruby code integration.
• There is PHP integration.
• There are debugging commands, a simple template system, heredoc syntax, html character output, and html4
doctype tags.
• Smarty integration.
• Zend Framework integration.
• All in a single PHP class.