Here is one of my PHP standards... I prefer this to more complex template systems, although the idea is borrowed from Symfony I think. The style I try to adhere

Here is one of my PHP standards... I prefer this to more complex template systems, although the idea is borrowed from Symfony I think. The style I try to adhere to is to only use simple variables and loops in html templates. This is the basic idea: function render($data, $templateFile) { extract( $data ); ob_start(); require $templateFile; echo ob_get_clean(); } It turns an array (or DTO object using get_object_vars) into global variables in the template, so this code in a controller $data->foo = "bar"; Is accessed in the template like this: <?= $foo ?>