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fantomx1/view-locator
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template locator

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viewLocator
===========

[](#viewlocator)

View locator class, for locating views/templates relatively the to processing logic controller/model, especially used in frameworks or independent framework-agnostic extensions Following the standard frameworks way of reflecting the controller's name as subfolders inside the views (MVC) folder, containing a template for each executing logic (Controller/Widget) action eg. CRUD.

```
    Controllers
       SiteController
     Views
       Site
          create.php (C-reate)
          index.php  (R-ead)
          edit.php   (U-pdate)
          list.php   (D-delete)

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
    $tl = new TemplateLocator();
    $path = $tl->seek($this);

    $path = $path .'/'.$template.'.php';
    #####################################

    $tl = new TemplateLocator();
    $path = $tl->getRelative()->setViewsDir('../../twig/views')->seek($this);
    $path = $path .'/'.$template.'.php';

```

$this - passing the $this param to the $seek method, is a controller in which is this library used in, to reflect the templates path relatively to it. (TODO: better to add it to some fluent interface method chaining)

In full context
===============

[](#in-full-context)

```
protected function render($template, array $vars)
{

    $tl = new ViewLocator();
    $path = $tl->setViewsDir('./templates')->seek($this);

    extract($vars);
    include $path.''.$template.'.php';
}

```

Using fantomx1\\ViewLocatorRenderTrait for handling rendering overhead in libraries from the shelf eg. in real wold context..
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[](#using-fantomx1viewlocatorrendertrait--for-handling-rendering-overhead-in-libraries-from-the-shelf--eg-in-real-wold-context)

private $viewsDir = './views/';

```