Using TinyButStrong to Create a Themeable Website

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One little known open-source tool for PHP developers is the powerful TinyButStrong template engine.  Using it can help you build a theme based website fast, and allow users to even upload themes and try them out if you give them the API for your code.

Here is the website: http://www.tinybutstrong.com/

The power in TinyButStrong (TBS here on out) is it’s simplicity in use and it’s power and control.  Most template engines that are easy to use limit the coder in some ways- not TBS.  It has a punch with very little learning curve involved.

The trick with TBS is exposing variables and functions to a theme. That way you can create a layout with the basic knowledge of what goes inside of it and still keep the design and the working code separate with little overhead.  It even has a caching utility and some simple AJAX like functionality.

I always tell beginners in TBS to expose as many variables as possible to your theming engine.  Even if you don’t use them right away, it’s always there for the possibility of something unique that a user might do in the future.  Something you probably would never thought of yourself.

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