Learning: Template language for PHP developers

Table of contents:

Variables
Operators
Control structures
Functions

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This page lists PHP features and their counterpart in the eZ publish template language. With the term "counterpart" we do not mean the usage and features are exactly the same. We just try to list the most similar construct(s).

Variables

PHP	Template language counterpart
$_SERVER	ezservervars
$_GET	ezhttp ezhttp_hasvariable
$_POST	ezhttp ezhttp_hasvariable
$_SESSION	ezhttp ezhttp_hasvariable session_save session_load sessionget sessionset
$_COOKIE	getCookie

Operators

Arithmetic

PHP	Template language counterpart
+	sum
-	sub
*	mul
/	div
%	mod

Comparison

PHP	Template language counterpart
==	eq
!=	ne
<>	ne
<	lt
>	gt
<=	le
>=	ge

Incrementing/decrementing

PHP	Template language counterpart
++	inc
--	dec

Logical

PHP	Template language counterpart
and	and
or	or
not	not
&&	and
\|\|	or

String

PHP	Template language counterpart
.	concat
.=	concat

Array

PHP	Template language counterpart
===	compare
!==	compare

Control structures

PHP	Template language counterpart
if	if
while	while
do-while	do
for	for
foreach	foreach
switch	switch

Functions

The function index of the PHP manual contains all available PHP functions.

The following list has to be ordered alphabetically. Keep this in mind when adding items to it.

PHP	Template language counterpart
array	array hash
array_merge	merge
array_push	append
array_reverse	reverse
array_pop	remove
array_shift	remove
array_slice	extract extract_left extract_right
array_sum	array_sum
array_unique	unique
array_unshift	prepend
arsort	arsort
asort	asort
explode	explode
get_defined_vars	show_variables
header	redirectrelative redirectabsolute
htmlentities	wash encode
implode	implode
in_array	contains
is_null	null
isset	is_set
krsort	krsort
ksort	ksort
mktime	maketime
md5	md5 encode
natcasesort	natcasesort
natsort	natsort
nl2br	nl2br break
ob_get_clean()	set-block append-block
preg_replace	reg_ex_replace
rand	rand randomnum
rsort	rsort
shuffle	shuffle (original shuffle)
sort	sort
str_replace	ezstr_replace
strtolower	downcase
strtoupper	upcase
tidy_parse_string	eztidy
time	currentdate
urlencode	defined by PHPOperatorList encode