# tepal

Tepal is a Template Parsing Library, written in C.

## Synopsis

[unknown]

## Description

It's origin lies in my unhappieness with PHP, JSP and other
languages designed for web-development. Lately i learned a little
about template system and worked a little with smarty and after a
while i got the idea that if one wants to seperate program logic
from display logic it is also possible to write you application
in C as i prefer. The FastCGI interface is as fast or even faster than
the PHP interface. The only thing needed is a library that does the
same things as smarty, set template variables, parse a template and
write the result.

Well, it turns out that this only thing was more work than i first
thought, especially because i never wrote an interpreter or compiler
before. And i had not college courses on that issue too. So i had to
find out everything by my own. Thanks go to the excellent documentation
of flex and bison and the Telos GmbH that published a simple interpreter.

While i was writing this I recognised that it might be usefull at other
things too. Everything that can be created by a cleartext template
and some application logic can be created with this lib.

## Requirements

 * Gnu C
 * Flex/Yack

## Contributing

Just email me.

## License

GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3)

> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Author

Georg Hopp <<georg@steffers.org>>