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Overview

Even though the view renderer provides us the render method, it’s not capable of actually rendering a view by itself. Instead, it delegates this job to a template engine. The template engine is an instance of a class that implements the Opis\View\IEngine interface. This interface provides 2 methods that need to be implemented: canHandle and build.

The canHanle method takes a single argument - the path to a template - and returns true if it can handle that path, or false otherwise. This is how we are able to use different template engine simultaneously.

The build method takes two arguments: the path to a template file and an array of variables. It will use these arguments to generate the content and return the result.

use Opis\View\IEngine;

class MyEngine implements IEngine
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function build(string $path, array $vars): string
    {
        // Build and return the content
    }
    
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function canHandle(string $path): bool
    {
        // Check if the $path can be handled by this engine
    }
}

Registering new engines

Opis View provides, by default, a template engine - implemented in the Opis\View\PHPEngine class - that uses PHP itself as a templating language.

If you have created a custom template engine, you must register it first, in order to be able to use it. Registering a new template engine is done by calling the register method.

The method takes as arguments a callback - which will act as a factory and return an instance of our engine - and, optionally, a priority (default is 0). The callback factory will receive, as an argument, the view renderer instance where the new engine will be registered.

use Opis\View\{
    ViewRenderer
};

$renderer = new ViewRenderer();

$renderer->getEngineResolver()
         ->register(function(ViewRenderer $renderer){
            return new MyCustomEngine($renderer);
         });

You can override an existing engine by calling the register method and using a higher priority.

$renderer->getEngineResolver()
         ->register(function(ViewRenderer $renderer){
            return new MyPHPEngine($renderer);
         }, 1); // priority 1