This library provides a custom view for the Slim Framework to support the Plates template engine.

Add the provider to your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "philipsharp/slim-view-plates": "5.*"
    }
}

Enable it in your application

<?php

$view = new \philipsharp\Slim\View\Plates();

$app = new \Slim\Slim(array(
    'view' => $view
));

Set $view->fileExtension to the file extension used for all templates.

By default Plates expects the extension to be .php.

Set $view->templatesPath to the location of the templates.

By default Slim-View-Plates will use the Slim templates.path configuration value. This setting allows you to override that value for only the Plates templates.

Add to the $view->templatesFolders array, where the key is the name of the folder and the value is the path.

To access the Plates engine object for further customization, including loading extensions, call $view->getInstance().