Installing Twig in Evolution CMS with Composer and EvoTwig

Twig support was one of the more interesting experiments around modernizing the Evolution CMS templating workflow. The donor post showed a practical way to combine Composer, EvoTwig, and file-based templates so teams could write cleaner views while still living inside an Evolution project.

What the setup needed

• An Evolution CMS build with the necessary integration hooks.
• Composer available on the server.
• The EvoTwig package installed into the project.
• A file-based template structure under the assets or element directories.

Basic installation flow

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
composer install

Once Composer dependencies were in place, Twig templates could be stored as files and matched to resources or templates using a naming convention. That gave developers a far more comfortable editing experience than large inline manager templates.

Why this mattered

The important part was not just syntax sugar. Twig introduced a better separation between layout and data, made template code easier to reason about, and fit much more naturally into version-controlled, IDE-based workflows.

For teams already pushing Evolution CMS toward modern development habits, Twig was a meaningful bridge rather than just an experiment.