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PMVC View template

Explain Template variable

• 1. Initiate
  • App assign params to template variable by logic
• 1. Before process view
  • If plug view_config_helper. (Why need use view_config_helper)
    • 1. Load global option 'VIEW'.
    • 1. Merge global option 'I18N' with VIEW['I18N']
    • 1. Get configs from .env.view and merge to configs, it's useful when you need develop and overwrite remote configs.
    • 1. If have view_config_helper callback will cook $config by callback
    • 1. Set all above configs to template variable.
• 1. Running view process
  • View engine will extra specific tpl config to plugin config
  • Specific keys such as 'assetsRoot' will copy from template variable to plugin config, if we have variabe need overwirte plugin config from view_config_helper.

Explain theme config

Config location : [SiteFolder]/themes/[ThemeName]/config/config.php

• Example: https://github.com/pmvc-theme/hello_react/blob/master/config/config.php

${_INIT_CONFIG}=[
  'backend' => [], // will append with view plugin and use in backend.
  'view' => [], // will append to front-end view variable, and could see it in browser (JS) level.
  'compile' => [], // use webpack compile only
];

• https://github.com/pmvc-plugin/view/blob/master/src/ViewEngine.php#L154-L155

How to handle output header?

https://github.com/pmvc-plugin/view/wiki#how-to-config-header

Pass Template Folder

• user pmvc config _TEMPLATE_DIR
• https://github.com/pmvc-plugin/controller/blob/master/src/Constants.php#L48

Purpose

• Use __invoke to get other framework object instance
  • https://github.com/pmvc-plugin/view/blob/master/src/ViewEngine.php#L29-L32

Shareable forward

• https://github.com/pmvc-plugin/default_forward

Install with Composer

1. Download composer

• mkdir test_folder
• curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

2. Edit composer file

• vim composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "pmvc-plugin/view": "dev-master"
    }
}