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A PHP version of Ruby's Liquid Template Engine for YouCan Shop theme development.
Liquid allows you to create flexible and dynamic themes for e-commerce stores.

Why Use Liquid?

• Seperate compiling and rendering stages for improved performance.
• Simple syntax for creating dynamic templates.
• Create reusable components

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require liquid/liquid

Example Usage

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Liquid\Template;

$template = new Template();
$template->parse('Hello, {{ name }}!');
echo $template->render(['name' => 'world']);

Creating YouCan Themes

Liquid uses a combination of objects, tags, and filters inside template files to display dynamic content.

What does it look like?

  {% if user %}
    <p>Welcome back, {{ user.name }}!</p> <!-- Outputs a welcome message if the user is logged in -->
  {% else %}
    <p>Welcome to our store!</p> <!-- Outputs a generic welcome message if the user is not logged in -->
  {% endif %}
</header>

<main>
  <h1>{{ product.title }}</h1> <!-- Outputs the product title -->
  <p>{{ product.description }}</p> <!-- Outputs the product description -->
  <p>Price: {{ product.price | money }}</p> <!-- Outputs the product price formatted as money -->
</main>

1. Output Tags ({{ }}): used to display content.
2. Logic Tags ({% %}): used to perform actions such as conditions and loops.
3. Filters (|): used to format the output of variables
4. Variables: used to store data that can be rendered in templates.

For more information, visit the YouCan Theme Documentation.