Introduction
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## About

Plates is a native PHP template system that’s fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It’s inspired by the excellent [Twig](http://twig.sensiolabs.org/) template engine and tries to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates. Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled templates, such as Twig or Smarty.

## Highlights

- Native PHP templates, no new syntax to learn
- Plates is a template system, not a template language
- Plates encourages the use of existing PHP functions
- Template layouts and inheritance
- Template folders for grouping templates into namespaces
- Easy to extend using extensions
- Framework-agnostic, will work with any project
- Decoupled design makes templates easy to test
- Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant

## Who is behind Plates?
Plates was created by Jonathan Reinink. Find him on Twitter at [@reinink](https://twitter.com/reinink).
Introduction
============

## About

Plates is a native PHP template system that’s fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It’s inspired by the excellent [Twig](http://twig.sensiolabs.org/) template engine and tries to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates. Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled templates, such as Twig or Smarty.

## Highlights

- Native PHP templates, no new syntax to learn
- Plates is a template system, not a template language
- Plates encourages the use of existing PHP functions
- Template layouts and inheritance
- Template folders for grouping templates into namespaces
- Easy to extend using extensions
- Framework-agnostic, will work with any project
- Decoupled design makes templates easy to test
- Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant

## Source code

Find Plates on GitHub at [github.com/reinink/Plates](https://github.com/reinink/Plates).

## Questions?

Plates was created by Jonathan Reinink. Find him on Twitter at [@reinink](https://twitter.com/reinink).
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