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Twig is a template engine for PHP. But isn’t PHP itself a template engine?
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PHP is a verbose language, and that verbosity is amplified when trying to output HTML content.
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To exemplify this, let’s separate actual content from the HTML definition in our example. Let’s create a new HTML file and call it layout.html:
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Let’s cache the templates in our example by editing our bootstrap.php file:
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This operator is just syntactic sugar for the range function which works just like the native PHP range function.
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The js, CSS, URL and html_attr escaping strategies are also available. They escape the string for the Javascript, CSS, URI and HTML attribute contexts respectively.
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