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twigHow to become a Twig developer using PHP?


Becoming a Twig developer using PHP is a great way to create dynamic webpages. Twig is a templating language for PHP, and it allows developers to create powerful and dynamic webpages.

To get started, you'll need to install the Twig library. This can be done using Composer:

composer require "twig/twig:^2.0"

Once the library is installed, you can start writing Twig templates. A Twig template is a file that contains HTML, Twig tags, and Twig functions. Here is an example of a Twig template:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>{{ page_title }}</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>{{ page_title }}</h1>
    {{ page_content }}
  </body>
</html>

The template above contains two Twig tags: {{ page_title }} and {{ page_content }}. These tags will be replaced with the corresponding values when the template is rendered.

To render the template, you'll need to create a PHP script. Here is an example of a PHP script that renders the template above:

<?php

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('templates');
$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader);

echo $twig->render('page.html', array(
    'page_title' => 'My Page',
    'page_content' => 'This is my page content.'
));

The script above loads the Twig library, creates a Twig environment, and renders the page.html template with the given values.

By following these steps, you can become a Twig developer using PHP.

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