ARK2/Templates

Templates

ARK2 uses the TWIG templating engine to define the Front-end web views.

See the Twig documentation on general use of Twig.

See the Silex documentation for using TWIG with Silex.

See the [http://symfony.com/doc/current/templating.html Symfony documentation

Extensions

TWIG can easily be extended with custom extensions to the template language. ARK2 ships with a number of common extensions, as well as some ARK-specific extensions.

• ARK:
  • translate: An extension to the standard Symfony trans option to add support for ARK Translation Roles, see Translation page.
  • translatechoice: An extension to the standard Symfony transchoice option to add support for ARK Translation Roles, see Translation page.

• Silex/Symfony Extensions , in particular:
  • Translation
  • Forms
  • Security
  • Global variables for: request, session, user, debug

• Official Twig Extensions:
  • Text: Provides useful filters for text manipulation;
  • Intl: Adds a filter for localization of DateTime objects, numbers and currency;
  • Array: Provides useful filters for array manipulation;
  • Date: Adds a filter for rendering the difference between dates.