Notes"When it comes to template languages in PHP, many people will tell you that PHP itself is a template language. But even if PHP started its life as a template language, it did not evolve like one in the recent years. As a matter of fact, it doesn't support many features modern template languages should have nowadays"Unfurl
Notes"None of the most requested features for WordPress would be any easier (or harder) if they were written for PHP 4 or 5 or Python. They’d just be different."Unfurl
Notes"One of the latest features added to the XSLT extension is the ability to call any PHP function from within an XSLT stylesheet. While XML/XSLT purists will certainly dislike this.., it can be very useful in some special cases."Unfurl
Notes"Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure."Unfurl