Using template engine twig in cakephp?

Question

I wonder if it is optimal to use a template engine with Cakephp 2.x like Symfony2 does. I have read that there are several template engines like Twig and Smarty.

Answer 1

Visit another question "Pure PHP/HTML views VS template engines views" for some insight into the templating engine vs php topic.

However, since you reference CakePHP, I would recommend against using a templating engine unless you require it. In my opinion, if you can markup a page in Twig or Smarty, you should be able to code a view page in CakePHP.

A big benefit of some templating engines is the built in caching functionality but you can get much greater flexibility by using CacheHelper.

Answer 2

I have integrate them Here is my code

function generate_reports(){
        echo Configure::version();
        $this->autoRender = false;

        include('../vendors/Twig/autoload.php');
        $loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('../views/reports/templates');   
        // $array=array('index' => 'Hello {{ name }}!');
        //$loader = new Twig_Loader_Array($array);
        $twig = new Twig_Environment($loader);
        echo $twig->render('index.html', array('name' => 'Fabien'));
     }

I have download twig and put inside the vendors folder

then i have create folder named templates inside the views folder create file index.html this is content of index.html file --> Hello {{ name }}!