Apache Velocity with PHP

Question

I've been searching Google to try and find if Apache Velocity can be used with PHP but so far I haven't found anything that says it can.

Does anyone know if this is possible or if there is an alternative method.

Basically what I'm trying to do is separate HTML emails out of my PHP code so that I can just have a load of template files and then fire them off when needed. That way I won't have to write long strings of HTML code in a .php file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

For PHP I am using Smarty templating engine, it has a similar syntax to Velocity and is easy to use. I find {$myvar} to be more readable than <?php echo $myvar; ?>.