NitroScript: A PHP template engine for customizing of e-commerce applications

Customizing Web pages in a shared operating environment is a challenging task since users have different needs and expectations. One way to facilitate the customization process of Web page is to provide to users with a template engine. By using a template engine, the user can specify variability points in the target document that will be replaced with the appropriate piece of information at runtime. This paper presents NitroScript: a new PHP template engine. NitroScript is designed to be used in e-commerce thereby differing from other general purposes template engines such as Smarty. NitroScript allows retailers to easily customize their product Web pages. The code generated by the NitroScript compiler is a PHP bytecode which results in a performance boost.