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Sitellite has two template languages: the XML-based XT for design templates (called layouts in Elefant), and SimpleTemplate (.spt files) for more concise templates used by boxes.
Elefant has one very simple but flexible template engine for both designer layouts and app developers. It looks closer to SimpleTemplate than XT, but was inspired more by other template engines such as Django's, with several twists of its own. It caches templates to PHP files before running them, so it's also very fast.
Elefant layouts live in the layouts folder (inc/html in Sitellite), and app templates live in the app's views folder (inc/app/myapp/html in Sitellite).
For more info, see Templates.
Calling a SimpleTemplate in Sitellite:
<?php
echo template_simple ('file.spt', $params);
?>
Calling a template in Elefant:
<?php
echo $tpl->render ('myapp/template', $params);
?>
This would call the template apps/myapp/views/template.html.