Version History

Version 0.84

• Simplification of compiler parsing rules (no significant breaks).
• Modifiers can now be used in more places.
• Functions can only be called in top-level expressions or inside parenthesized expressions.

Version 0.83

• Include PEAR package.xml file.
• Added uncache() and clearCache() methods.
• Renamed documentation tool to sugardoc.
• Renamed most classes to follow the Sugar_Foo naming convention.
• Added experimental Memcached-based cache driver.
• Changed the SugarUtil methods to functions.
• Renamed the method_acl member to methodAcl for consistency.
• Added getOption() and setOption() methods.
• Removed layouts in favor of inherited templates.
• pluginDir and templateDir may be arrays of paths.
• section, insert, inherit all look like built-in functions.

Version 0.82

• Registered functions can have escaping disabled by default.
• Sections.
• Layouts.

Version 0.81

• Improved documentation.
• Added modifiers.
• Converted several stdlib functions to modifiers.
• Renamed to Sugar for PHP License compatibility.
• Support Smarty-style block terminators (e.g. /if).
• Method access control via $smarty->method_acl property.

Version 0.80

• Added the ability to set functions as non-cachable back.
• Added ability to change code delimiters.
• Changed default delimiters to {% and %}.
• Function calls always used named parameters (method calls never do).
• Function calls do not use commas between parameters (method calls do).
• Function calls do not use parenthesis around parameters (method calls do).
• Added auto-lookup of functions.
• Added plugin support for functions.
• Cleaned up the stdlib naming slightly.

Version 0.74

• Fix fetch*() family of functions.
• More E_STRICT|E_ALL errors fixed.
• Added isset, printf, join, split, pspli, and merge template functions.
• Made the -> operator an alias of the . operator.
• Added inline documentation for stdlib template functions.
• Removed function flags.
• Added gen-doc.php documentation generator.

Version 0.73

• Fix isCached() in debug mode.
• E_STRICT|E_ALL error fixed.
• Fixed templates.

Version 0.72

• Caching bug fixes.
• New functions.
• Include file timestamp checking for HTML caches.

Version 0.71

• Removed the automatic conversion of names to strings
• Massive cleanups to compiler
• Added a character set option for escaping
• Fixed bugs in jsValue encoding with strings
• Decode n sequences in input strings
• Changed the array constructor to a function call to array()
• Added a [] array subscript operator
• Changed license to the equivalent MIT license
• Complete API documentation in phpDocumentor format
• Methods for retrieving template output

Version 0.70

• Modified loop syntax
• Added a while loop
• Added nocache block directive
• Revamped internal API
• Added many stdlib functions
• Added array constructor
• Added PHP-style commenting syntax