Dwoo is a PHP template engine. It features fully compatible with Smarty templates and plugins, but is written from scratch for PHP5. Template inheritance, a fresh look at complex template structures. Sub-template declaration within templates to allow recursive templates.

Dwoo also has a flexible plugin creation, plugins can be wrapped in classes or simple functions, they can be precompiled to optimize the load time of the template. It is ready to use with several framework, such as CakePHP, CodeIgniter, ZendFramework, using the provided adpters.

Main Features:
- Template Inheritance, a fresh look at complex template structures, now built without includes
- Sub-template declaration within templates to allow recursive templates.
- Smarty syntax compatibility with several additions and shortcuts to speed up template writing
- Flexible plugin creation, plugins can be wrapped in classes or simple functions, they can be precompiled to optimize the load time of the template, etc.
- Scope aware engine, allowing for shorter templates
- Unicode / UTF-8 support for string manipulation functions.
- Generally faster than Smarty with variable speed improvements depending on the features used.
- E_STRICT compliant code that does not throw PHP warnings.
- Ready to use with several frameworks using the provided adapters (ZendFramework, Agavi, CakePHP, CodeIgniter)