VIVVO 4.0 - Web publishing at your fingertips!

What's behind Vivvo?

Vivvo Template Engine was developed as a template engine for Vivvo CMS. Our main goal in design and development was to create a template engine that would be light-weight and easy to use, yet powerful and scalable. And of course high-performance, which is a must. The template engine that can do recursions, object calls, arrays, but still remain within a single class in less than 1000 lines of code! The main problem with many robust template engines (like Smarty) is that most developers use barely 20% of their power and that's exactly why our goal was quite the opposite - a template engine that most web applications will drive at 90% of its speed with a minimal learning curve.

What if we...

Normally we would prepare the content for you in PHP and let you model it trough templates. That would mean that we have to prepare everything you might want to publish, disregarding what is in your templates.

But what if we turned the tables, what if your template told us what block of code to load, what SQL query to make, what RSS to fetch, etc. Well, that is what VTE does for you.

VTE Main Features

• Easy to learn
• Presentation layer separated from PHP
• Powerful data manipulation
• Orientated towards web components

VTE language

VTE language is XML-based and it consists of tags and attributes (more about individual tags can be found here). It uses VTE namespace and can be mixed with any other XML language (ie. xHTML). Each VTE template must be a valid XML document.

VTE has only 14 instructions for loading and manipulating data, assigning custom JS and CSS, building control structures.

Building Component

You can make each template reusable by adding CSS and JS information (Vivvo framework keeps track of JS and CSS loading usage).

Ajax

You can get a single template output through Vivvo for AJAX inclusion on other systems.