Views

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Views

(If you are reading this, it's considered that you have read the previous page: https://github.com/FastyPHP/fasty/wiki/Routing)

Fasty currently supports only one template engine - Smarty
It's very fast, reliable, and on top of that, it has a rich syntax

Views (template files) are stored inside public/Templates/Views directory and have a .tpl file extension

To display a view, you can use the helper function view();

By default, Fasty comes with a template called welcome.tpl
To display it, simply add the following code to your web controller class (the one we created in the previous page):

public function index() {

    return view('welcome');
}

The view helper function accepts 2 parameters, the first one is mandatory while the second one is optional

view(string $templateName, array $arguments);

The $templateName is obviously the template you want to load
If you want to load a template inside a folder, you can use the traditional folder/template

view('folder/template');

or you could use a . separator Like so:

view('folder.template');

The $arguments param is an array that contains variables that you want to pass to a template you're loading
So for example, you want to pass a variable $hello to the template welcome
You would do so by typing

view('welcome', [
    'hello' => 'Hello world!'
]);

And inside the welcome.tpl file, you would access the hello variable by using the following

{$hello}

For a more detailed syntax documentation, please visit the official smarty docs here: http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/

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