Porting the Fluid Template Engine to TYPO3 v4
Proposed by: Sebastian Kurfürst
Mentor: Sebastian Kurfürst
Student working on it: -
Level: Medium
Overview
TYPO3 v4's marker based templating did not have any significant changes within the last few years. Features like loops, object orientation support, or control structures are not possible to do within the template engine - instead, one needs to write a lot of PHP code to do this.
It would be beneficial for TYPO3 v4 to have a new, clean and extensible template engine. Fluid is the new standard template engine for TYPO3 v5, and it would be really helpful to have it available in TYPO3 v4 as well. This includes two main goals:
- Use it for TypoScript templates
- Use it within extensions
Additionally, having Fluid in TYPO3 v4 will ease the transition to TYPO3 v5 further.
Impact on TYPO3
The template engine is a basic building block of a CMS - thus, a lot of people work with it during their daily work. Fluid as new template engine would thus be beneficial to almost all TYPO3 developers, making them more productive in their daily work.
Issues
- Marker-based templating does not have control structures or object accessing methods
- Not possible to extend it
- Not really object oriented
- No autocompletion in editors
- You need to write PHP and HTML code to write a template. There is no separation of concerns.
Goals / Deliverables
The overall goal is a new template engine for TYPO3 v4. It should be integrated in TYPO3 4.4.
- Backport Fluid core to TYPO3 v4 - try automatic conversion
- Make it accessible through TypoScript and for extension developers
- Create a concept for View Helpers for TYPO3 v4 and v5
- Implement view helpers specially for TYPO3 v4
- Make the autocompletion work reliably in Eclipse
Required Skills or Background
- Experience in object oriented programming
- TYPO3 v4 knowledge is needed
- If you have worked with some MVC framework, that will be very helpful
- XML and XML Schema knowledge helps for implementing autocompletion, but is not required.
Comments
forge.typo3.org/projects/show/package-fluid
forge.typo3.org/repositories/browse/package-fluid/trunk/Documentation/Manual/en
