Blitz templates is a fast PHP template engine written in C and compiled as a PHP extension. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers (custom view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in HTML). Benchmarks show that it is one of the fastest template engines for PHP, even though it's not trivial and makes Web application closer to a smart MVC-like architecture model with maximal separation of HTML from your code. It was designed for big high-load Internet projects with a lot of complex presentation logic.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
A new ini variable "blitz.check_recursion" was added. Use this setting to disable internal recursion check for recursive includes (for example, when building a hierarchical comment tree using a template that includes itself). A segfault in nested includes with user-defined functions was fixed (in some cases, there could be a double free of method result at shutdown stage).
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