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Shopify templates resemble Django

Posted by Jeremy Voorhis Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:06:00 GMT

A colleague on IRC recently brought Shopify to my attention. Shopify looks to be a tidy hosted service for running your own shopping cart, complete with through-the-web template customization. Since ERb might not be appropriate for templates that users create, they also developed a template language called liquid to allow safe customization of their users’ shops. Surprisingly, it strongly resembles Django’s template language.

Here is their sample Liquid template:

{% if products == empty %}
  <p>There are no products in this area</p>
{% else %}

  {% foreach product in products %}
    <div class="product">
      <h2>{{ product.title }}</h2>

      <div class="product-image">
        {{ product.image -> thumbnail }}
      </div>

      <div class="product-description">
        {{ product.description }}
      </div>
    </div>
  {% end %}

{% end %}

Rewritten for Django:

{% if not products %}
  <p>There are no products in this area</p>
{% else %}

  {% foreach product in products %}
    <div class="product">
      <h2>{{ product.title }}</h2>

      <div class="product-image">
        {{ product.image | thumbnail }}
      </div>

      <div class="product-description">
        {{ product.description }}
      </div>
    </div>
  {% endfor %}

{% endif %}