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Templates

Anano has a simple templating engine inspired by Laravel's Blade and .NET's Razor.

Usage

To use Anano's templating, place all view files inside the app/views directory and load them with the Anano\View (by default aliased to simply View) class constructor, or the make static method.

For example

#!php

function getIndex()
{
    //return View::make('home'); does the same
    return new View('home');
}

Anano templates should contain ordinary HTML, augmented with as many or few as you want of the following special commands.

Other responses

Sometimes you need to return something other than a view, such as JSON data. Anano has you covered with a stripped down equivalent of Symfony's Response object.

From any controller you can return Response::json( $data_array ); and similar for Response::text( $text ), Response::download( $data, $filename ), etc. Content types will be automatically set for you, and profiler output, if on, will be disabled.

Echoing content

#!php

<div class="{{ $test ? 'class1' : 'class2' }}">
    {{ $variable }}
</div>

Inline conditionals etc.

#!php

@if($variable):
    <div>True</div>
@endif

These will work with any standard PHP code, including while:...endwhile, for:...endfor etc.

Specials

Root directory

Often times, especially when using AJAX, you will need to get the app's root folder. This too is easy with templates. You can retrieve it anywhere in a document with {{ App::root() }} or use the handy shortcut @approot directly in the URL, i.e. url: '@approot/method/arg'.

For external Javascript files containing AJAX, the best practice is usually to set a global variable in a <script> section in your view to the root path.