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Prologue

Setup

Modular-MVC

Supporting Structure

Services

Miscellaneous

View

# View MVC can be metaphorically related to a TV. You have various channels, with different information on them supplied by your cable provider (the model). **The TV screen displays these channels to you (the view)**. You pressing the buttons on the remote controls affects what you see and how you see it (the controller). -<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2626803/mvc-model-view-controller-can-it-be-explained-in-simple-terms#answer-2626813">Tilo Mitra</a> ## Index: - [Controller](#controller) - [Module](#module) - [Learn More](#learn-more) --- <a name="controller"></a> # Controller We have a controller actions but wondering how to call our templates. You have two ways to do that, there is the facade class ``View`` or you may call the function ``view(...)`` ```php <?php namespace ...; use View; class MyController extends Controller { public function index() { return view('parent_folder.child_folder.file'); // return View::make('parent_folder.child_folder.file'); } public function users() { $users = []; # some codes here that calls our model # and probably passing a data on $users array. return view('users.index') ->with('users', $users); # another way to do it // ->withUsers($users); } } ``` The sample code above shows how to call a template or our volt template. ### index() action Instead of using slash, we're using ``dot`` to access folders. We have ``parent_folder.child_folder.file``, it should access this volt file: **project-name/resources/view/parent_folder/child_folder/file.volt** ### users() action To pass in a variable inside the volt or any template engine, we can call this chain function ``with('var_name', 1234)``, you could also try the magic method ``withVarName(1234)`` and it will be interpreted as ``$var_name`` and the value will be ``1234`` --- <a name="module"></a> # Module You are wondering how could we change the views directory, we can achieve this by calling ``setViewsDir`` under our DI ``view`` ```php // app/modules.php <?php return [ 'main' => function (Phalcon\Di\FactoryDefault $di) { $di->get('view')->setViewsDir('/going/to/my/separated/folder'); }, ]; ``` --- <a name="learn-more"></a> # Learn More To learn more about the whole ``view`` process, you may click these references: - <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/views.html">https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/views.html</a> - <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/volt.html">https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/volt.html</a>