1Plates
  2======
  3
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 12
 13Plates is a native PHP template system that's fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It's inspired by the excellent [Twig](http://twig.sensiolabs.org/) template engine and strives to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates. Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled template languages, such as Twig or Smarty.
 14
 15### Highlights
 16
 17- Native PHP templates, no new [syntax](http://platesphp.com/templates/syntax/) to learn
 18- Plates is a template system, not a template language
 19- Plates encourages the use of existing PHP functions
 20- Increase code reuse with template [layouts](http://platesphp.com/templates/layouts/) and [inheritance](http://platesphp.com/templates/inheritance/)
 21- Template [folders](http://platesphp.com/engine/folders/) for grouping templates into namespaces
 22- [Data](http://platesphp.com/templates/data/#preassigned-and-shared-data) sharing across templates
 23- Preassign [data](http://platesphp.com/templates/data/#preassigned-and-shared-data) to specific templates
 24- Built-in [escaping](http://platesphp.com/templates/escaping/) helpers
 25- Easy to extend using [functions](http://platesphp.com/engine/functions/) and [extensions](http://platesphp.com/engine/extensions/)
 26- Framework-agnostic, will work with any project
 27- Decoupled design makes templates easy to test
 28- Composer ready and PSR-2 compliant
 29
 30## Installation
 31
 32Plates is available via Composer:
 33
 34```
 35composer require league/plates
 36```
 37
 38## Documentation
 39
 40Full documentation can be found at [platesphp.com](http://platesphp.com/).
 41
 42## Testing
 43
 44```bash
 45phpunit
 46```
 47
 48## Contributing
 49
 50Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/thephpleague/plates/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
 51
 52## Security
 53
 54If you discover any security related issues, please email jonathan@reinink.ca instead of using the issue tracker.
 55
 56## Credits
 57
 58- [Jonathan Reinink](https://github.com/reinink)
 59- [All Contributors](https://github.com/thephpleague/plates/contributors)
 60
 61## License
 62
 63The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](https://github.com/thephpleague/plates/blob/master/LICENSE) for more information.
 64