Welcome to the documentation for Chano.

Chano is an almost direct port of Djangos Template Language to PHP. But where Django uses its own compiled template language, Chano is implemented in pure PHP, which lets you easily enhance your existing PHP templates with Chano.

Chano consists of a single class Chano() – a PHP iterator that lets you loop over an array, stdClass or Iterator and output its content in a variety of ways. Chano can of course be applied to a single value, e.g. a string, as well.

Chano is - thanks to the great Django documentation - pretty well documented. Learn all about Chano by following the links below.

Chano has a github page at https://github.com/runekaagaard/php-chano.

Table of contents

• Chano usage
• Chano functions
• Chano template inheritance
• Chano installation
• Chano changelog

Example

Below follows an example of what a template using Chano could look like:

<?php
// This would probably be done in the controller.
$movies = new Chano(get_movies());
$title = "My page title";
?>

<!-- Template -->

<h1>
    <?=Chano::with($title)->upper()?>
</h1>

<div class="movies">
    <p>
        Showing <?=$movies->length()?> movie<?=$movies->pluralize()?>
    </p>

    <?foreach($movies as $m):?>
        <div class="movie <?=$m->cycle('odd', 'even')?>"/>
            <h2>
                <?=$m->counter()?>)
                <?=$m->title->upper()?>
            </h2>

            <h3>Rating<?=$m->ratings->pluralize()?></h3>
            <p>
                <?=$m->ratings->join()?>
            </p>

            <h3>Link<?=$m->links->pluralize()?></h3>
            <ul>
                <?if($m->links->length() < 3):?>
                    <?=$m->links->unorderedlist()->urlize()?>
                <?else:?>
                    <?=$m->links->unorderedlist()->urlizetrunc(12)?>
                <?endif?>
            </ul>
        </div>
    <?endforeach?>

</div>