PHP Templating System

Squeditor leverages PHP exclusively as a development templating engine (similar to WordPress), allowing you to use loops, arrays, and template inclusion without needing a live PHP server in production. It compiles directly into pure, flat HTML.

Core Helper Functions

Included globally via base.php, these helpers (squeditor/php/functions.php) prevent you from writing raw include statements everywhere.

`get_template_part()`

Includes structural components from src/template-parts/.

// Includes src/template-parts/header.php
<?php get_template_part('header'); ?>

// Passing an optional associative array down to the partial as $args
<?php get_template_part('nav', ['mobile' => true]); ?>

`get_component()`

Includes UIKit3 layout wrappers from src/components/.

// Includes src/components/accordion.php
<?php get_component('accordion', ['demo' => true]); ?>

`get_section()`

Includes standalone section blocks from src/sections/. This is extremely useful for reusable sections (e.g. Hero, Testimonials) across multiple URLs.

// Includes src/sections/hero/hero-centered.php
<?php get_section('hero/hero-centered', [
    'heading'    => 'About Us',
    'subheading' => 'We build things that work.',
]); ?>

Parsing Frontmatter

To natively handle SEO and layout overrides on a per-page basis inside standard .php files, Squeditor uses a custom frontmatter syntax driven by a PHP comment block at the very top of each page. Example src/pages/about.php:

<?php
/*|
title: About Us — My Project Name
description: Learn about our team and mission.
|*/

$body_class = 'page-about';

// Output Buffering catches all the HTML structure explicitly
ob_start();
?>

<h1>About Our Project</h1>

<?php
$content = ob_get_clean();
// The base engine captures $content and injects it securely into the HTML body.
require __DIR__ . '/../page-templates/base.php';

Base Layout Template

src/page-templates/base.php acts as the master HTML shell. Every page extends it natively. It handles the <head>, metadata, linking the CSS/JS bundles, and injecting the $content variable correctly.

base.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="<?= $site['lang'] ?? 'en' ?>">
    <head>
        <title><?= htmlspecialchars($page_title) ?></title>
        <!-- ... -->
    </head>
    <body class="<?= htmlspecialchars($body_class) ?>">

      <!-- Native framework headers mapping automatically -->
      <?php get_template_part('header'); ?>

      <main id="main-content">
        <?php echo $content ?? ''; ?>
      </main>

      <?php get_template_part('footer'); ?>
      
    </body>
</html>

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Core Helper Functions

`get_template_part()`

`get_component()`

`get_section()`

Parsing Frontmatter

Base Layout Template

​Core Helper Functions

​get_template_part()

​get_component()

​get_section()

​Parsing Frontmatter

​Base Layout Template

Core Helper Functions

`get_template_part()`

`get_component()`

`get_section()`

Parsing Frontmatter

Base Layout Template