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A view is nothing more but an instance of a class that implements the Opis\View\IView interface. The interface has two methods: viewName and viewVariables. The first method must return the name of the view, while the other one must return a mapped array of values, representing the view’s variables.

The default implementation of a view is provided by the library itself, through its Opis\View\View class. The constructor of this class takes as arguments the view name and, optionally, an array of variables.

use Opis\View\View;

$foo = new View('foo');

$bar = new View('bar', [
    'var' => 'value'
]);

View name

The view name is an opaque identifier for a view instance. This means that it has absolutely no connection with the name of the template file, nor with its location. It’s not the view’s job to know where to get its template from.

$view = new View('foo');

// Get the view's name
echo $view->viewName(); //> foo

The view name’s value can be split into segments by using the . dot symbol.

$view = new View('user.profile');

Splitting a view name into segments is useful, not only when it comes to resolve them to a location, but also to avoid naming conflicts between different vendors.

$view1 = new View('opis.user.profile');
$view2 = new View('vendor.user.profile');
$view3 = new View('acme.blog.article');

View variables

Variables are represented by a key-value mapped array, where the key represents the variable’s name and the value represent’s the variable’s value.

$view = new View('test', [
    'foo' => 'Foo',
    'bar' => 'Bar'
]);

print_r($view->viewVariables());

/*
Array
(
    [foo] => Foo
    [bar] => Bar
)
*/

The variables names from a template are replaced with the values provided by the view instance

View:

$view = new View('article', [
    'title' => 'Hello, World!',
    'content' => 'This is the content of my article'
]);

Template:

<div class="article">
    <h1><?= $title ?></h1>
    <div><?= $content ?></div>
</div>

Result:

<div class="article">
    <h1>Hello, World!</h1>
    <div>This is the content of my article</div>
</div>