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A lightweight PHP view renderer with file lookup, namespaced views, layouts, sections, partials, and escaping helpers.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2

Installation

composer require lukman-ss/view

Usage

use Lukman\View\FileViewFinder;
use Lukman\View\PhpEngine;
use Lukman\View\ViewFactory;

$finder = new FileViewFinder([__DIR__ . '/views']);
$engine = new PhpEngine();
$view = new ViewFactory($finder, $engine);

echo $view->render('home', ['name' => 'Lukman']);

views/home.php:

Hello, <?php echo $e($name); ?>

View Names

Dot notation maps to paths:

echo $view->render('pages.home');

This resolves views/pages/home.php.

Namespaced views:

$finder->addNamespace('admin', __DIR__ . '/views/admin');

echo $view->render('admin::dashboard.index');

Shared Data

$view->share('appName', 'Demo');
$view->share(['locale' => 'en']);

echo $view->render('home', ['appName' => 'Override']);

Render data overrides shared data.

Layouts and Sections

views/layouts/app.php:

<title><?php echo $section('title', 'Default'); ?></title>
<main><?php echo $section('content'); ?></main>

views/home.php:

<?php $extend('layouts.app'); ?>

<?php $start('title'); ?>Home<?php $end(); ?>

<?php $start('content'); ?>
Hello, <?php echo $e($name); ?>
<?php $end(); ?>

Partials

<?php echo $include('partials.card', ['title' => 'Profile']); ?>

Included views receive parent data. Additional include data overrides parent data.

Escaping

<?php echo $e($value); ?>
<?php echo $raw($html); ?>

$e() escapes with htmlspecialchars using ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE and UTF-8. $raw() returns unescaped string output.

Exceptions

• Lukman\View\Exception\ViewNotFoundException
• Lukman\View\Exception\ViewException

Running Tests

composer test