munch

A lightweight, easy-to-use, open source template engine + PHP based framework to expedite site creation.

With munch, you get to create your own template system using PHP as the preprocessor, as PHP was intended to be used.
Natively supports HTML/CSS/JS

See a live example at https://munchphp.com and https://socialites.app which both run on munch php.

How To Use:

Edit config.php

Just open config.php and make sure to set what you'd like to use as your prefix and suffix for introducting your code
Set your database settings here as well if you're doing any database work. Natively supports MySQL

Edit views/base.bite

This file is the file is the base of your code. It carries over any of your CSS, js, includes, meta tags, etc. Make sure to update this with your information

How It Works:

index.php is just a routing tool that loads the proper .bite. If there is no specified .bite, it defaults to look for home.bite.

I've updated the source code to have an .htaccess that will handle routing through api.php
Its the preliminary to a proper api.
Routing now works like this: http://socialites.app/thanks. This would navigate the user to the thank-you page at views/thanks.bite
Routing works like this: http://munch.chuckokere.com/?route=thanks. This would navigate the user to the thank-you page at views/thanks.bite

If you are just trying to load partials, place them in views/partials/ Then make sure to call them in the respective .bite file using your delimiters (by default, its like this: {{loadPartial partialName}} ex: {{loadPartial footer}}). See views/home.bite for an example of how I generate a footer across pages.
This way if you need to update the footer, you only need to do it in the single file views/partials/footer.bite and it carries over everywhere.
If you want to create your own functions that will generate some bite code, you can create the function in controllers/maincontroller.php or you can create your own standalone controller.
If you do create your own standalone controller, make sure to reference it in render.php using an include

Folder Structure:

assets/                 # Assets of the site, images go here   
├──favicons/            # Favicons on the tab   
│   ├──favicon.ico   
├──fonts/               # All fonts to load for the site   
│   ├──font.ttf   
├──someimage.png
├──anotherimage.png   
└──lastimage.png   


controllers/            # All controllers go here   
├──maincontroller.php   # Main controller   
└──render.php           # Renderer thats used by index.php   
   
views/                  # Directory for all your .bite route files   
├──partials/            # Directory for all your partial .bite files   
│   ├──footer.bite           
├──home.bite            # Default home .bite for fallback
└──base.bite            # Base file that carries CSS, js, includes, meta tags, etc   

actions/                # This is where you put your action files, and reference them in .bite with action="...php"    

models/                 # This is where you put your models. (In progress)

config.php              # Config file for your delimiters and db info     
index.php               # Renderer    
styles.css              # Your CSS goes here    

More demos and examples coming soon