README


BH is a processor that converts BEMJSON to HTML. Or in other words a template engine.

Works with PHP 5.4+ (doesn't work with HHVM 'cause it lacks a lot of required functionality)

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Friendly Packages
• Usage
• Conversion

Friendly Packages

• Project Stub with BH.PHP tech
• BEM Core Library with BH.PHP templates - tmp branch
• BEM Components Library with BH.PHP templates - tmp branch

Installation

Via composer

Execute in your shell:

php composer.phar require bem/bh

or (if you have composer in your path)

composer require bem/bh

And use in your code:

require "vendor/autoload.php";
$bh = new \BEM\BH();
// ...

Manual installation

Download using git (execute this in your shell):

# via git
git clone https://github.com/bem/bh-php.git ./vendor/bem/bh

Using wget and tar:

# via wget + tar
wget https://github.com/bem/bh-php/archive/master.tar.gz # download archive
tar -xzvf master.tar.gz --exclude=tests        # extract
[ ! -d ./vendor/bem ] && mkdir ./vendor/bem -p # create vendor director
mv ./bh-php-master ./vendor/bem/bh             # move library to vendor
rm master.tar.gz                               # cleanup

Or just download the latest version and unpack to ./vendor/bem/bh path (or any path you want).

And use in your code:

// manual installation
require "vendor/bem/bh/index.php";
$bh = new \BEM\BH();
// ...

Usage

BH files within a project have .bh.php suffix (for example, page.bh.php). The file is formed in CommonJS-like format:

return function ($bh) {
    $bh->match(/*...*/);
    // ...
};

To load this file format use include and run technique:

// Instantiate BH object
$bh = new \BEM\BH();

// Load and apply matchers to BH object in $bh
$fn = include('file.bh.php');
$fn($bh); // done. and nothing in global

// ...

This allows you to have several instances at the moment:

$bh1 = new \BEM\BH();
$bh2 = new \BEM\BH();

// load matchers
$indexMatchers = include('bundles/index/index.bh.php');
$mergedMatchers = include('bundles/merged/merged.bh.php');

// apply them
$indexMatchers($bh1); // bh1 now contains matchers for index page only
$mergedMatchers($bh2); // bh2 now contains all matchers

// use it with the same bemjson data
$bh1->apply($bemjson);
$bh2->apply($bemjson);

Use apply method to convert source tree of BEMJSON into an output HTML. Use processBemJson method to get an interim result in detailed BEMJSON tree form.

Common use case:

require "vendor/autoload.php";
$bh = new \BEM\BH();
$bh->match('button', function ($ctx) {
    $ctx->tag('button');
});

$bh->processBemJson([ 'block' => 'block' ]);
// [ 'block' => 'button', 'mods' => new Mods(), 'tag' => 'button' ]

$bh->apply([ 'block' => 'button' ]);
// '<button class="button"></button>'

Conversion

Working functions for BEMJSON are templates. Use match method to declare templates. Logic of BEMJSON conversion is declared in a function body.

There are two arguments provided to a template function:

• $ctx – instance of \BEM\Context class;
• $json – instance of \BEM\Json class (current BEMJSON tree node).

NB: Do not make changes directly in $json object. Use methods of $ctx object instead. We recommend you to use $json object for reading only (see also $ctx->json() method).

Syntax:

/**
 * Register matchers
 * @param string|array $expression bem css expression
 * @param closure [$matcher]
 * @return \BEM\BH
 */
$bh->match(/*string*/ $expression, function (\BEM\Context $ctx, \BEM\Json $json) {
    // ... actions
});

// or...
$bh->match([/*string*/ $expression], function (\BEM\Context $ctx, \BEM\Json $json) {
    // ... actions
});

// or...
$bh->match(/*array*/ $matchers = [
    "$expression" => function(\BEM\Context $ctx, \BEM\Json $json) {
        // ... actions
    },
    // ... more matchers
]);

Look at more examples in README.md or README.ru.md.

License

The MIT Licence.