easy template system

ETS is a template system written with PHP that enables you to transform a set of data to any type of document.

For example, ETS can transform a list of product descriptions retrieved from a database to a HTML page. It can also construct SQL statements, ASCII data, XML documents. ETS provides 4 functions to match a set of data with templates:

• sprintt which returns the built template as a string,
• printt which prints it out.
• sprintts and printts which use a string instead of a file name. ETS supplies:
• array management,
• various conditional elements,
• access to any level in the data tree from any level in the template,
• data formatting,
• size reducing,
• integrated debug messages.

ETS works with 2 elements: the data tree and templates. The data tree contains every data that will be available. Templates define the way the data tree will be presented.

You can compare it to a XML document transformed with a XSLT template: it’s exactly the same concept. ETS can manage recursive templates, allows a complete reshuffle of the template with exactly the same data tree, is extremely valuable when working with database because of the implicit use of templates... It’s a powerful tool that will help you efficiently to build documents.