Trying to make a template go into a master template.

Cabbit · Jan 1, 2010

Hey folks what i am trying to do today since i have my controller action class sorted(thanks for the help getting started there guys). I am now working on a templater more specifically the template class works in for the basic bit but i want to make it put the view template into the layout template.

template.php

PHP:

Class CabbitTemplate 
{ 
    private $CabbitRegistry; 
    private $vars = array(); 
    function __construct($CabbitRegistry) 
    { 
        $this->CabbitRegistry = $CabbitRegistry; 
    } 
    public function __set($index, $value) 
    { 
        $this->vars[$index] = $value; 
    } 
     
    public function layout() 
    { 
        $viewPath = __SITE_PATH . '/application/layout' . '/layout.php'; 

        if (file_exists($viewPath) == false) 
        { 
            throw new Exception('Template not found in '. $viewPath); 
            return false; 
        } 
        return $viewPath;                
    } 
     

    function show($name) 
    { 
        $viewPath = __SITE_PATH . '/application/views' . '/' . $name . '.php'; 

        if (file_exists($viewPath) == false) 
        { 
            throw new Exception('Template not found in '. $viewPath); 
            return false; 
        } 

        // Load variables 
        foreach ($this->vars as $key => $value) 
        { 
            $$key = $value; 
        } 
        include $this->layout($viewPath);                
    } 

}

indexcontroller.php

PHP:

class inderController Extends CabbitControllerAction 
{ 
        $this->CabbitRegistry->CabbitTemplate->show('/index/index'); 
}

/view/index/index.php

PHP:

<h1><?php echo $welcome; ?></h1> 
<p><?php echo $status; ?></p> 
<?php echo $user; ?> 
<br /> 
<a href='/user/logout'>Logout</a>

/layout/layout.php

PHP:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head> 
</head> 
<body> 
<div id="content"> 
    <?php echo $this->CabbitRegistry->CabbitTemplate->layout(); ?> 
</div> 
</body> 
</html>

So far my best effort outputs

HTML:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head> 
</head> 
<body> 
<div id="content"> 
    /Users/jerryroy/Sites/Cabbit 1.0/application/layout/layout.php</div> 
</body> 
</html>

angelwatt · Jan 1, 2010

I'm looking at this fairly quick and with a slight headache, but I believe what you want is,

PHP:

<div id="content"> 
    <?php include ($this->CabbitRegistry->CabbitTemplate->layout()); ?> 
</div>

since you're returning a file path from layout().

Cabbit · Jan 1, 2010

Oh a full source code for what i have developed so far is here. Its not very big.
Also a note if you download it /application/bootstrap.php does nothing just now.

From looking at how the zend framework does it i need to create a bootstrap class that is a helper to my controller class so that i would define a master template in this bootstrap class that uses the template class as a helper by shoving in the template data into the bootstrap master template.

How this will work i am not yet sure, i am quite happy to have made a basic mvc framework as it is it is not getting wonderfully complex ^_^

So i will be working the bootstrap class using the template class as i base i would think, then i would need some way to make a master and slave relationship between the bootstrap that loads the layout and the template that loads the individual helper template files.

So it should be something like user opens page > cabbit calls index controller > cabbit calls > bootstrap > index controller populates the template class > template class comes back > cabbit puts the data into the layout for the user to see.

This is the original template file.

PHP:

Class CabbitTemplate 
{
	private $Cabbit;
	private $vars = array();
	function __construct($Cabbit) 
	{
		$this->Cabbit = $Cabbit;
	}
	public function __set($index, $value)
 	{
    	$this->vars[$index] = $value;
 	}	

	function show($name) 
	{
		$viewPath = __SITE_PATH . '/application/views' . '/' . $name . '.php';

		if (file_exists($viewPath) == false)
		{
			throw new Exception('Template not found in '. $viewPath);
			return false;
		}

		// Load variables
		foreach ($this->vars as $key => $value)
		{
			$$key = $value;
		}
		include $viewPath;               
	}
}

Cabbit · Jan 2, 2010

Oh why oh why do i think the most difficult route is the best. This works out terrifically, only change i would make is in the future is the ability to select layouts.

template class

PHP:

/*
 * Cabbit 1.0
 * Licence: GPLv2
 * CabbitTemplate v0.1
 */

Class CabbitTemplate 
{
	private $Cabbit;
	private $vars = array();
	function __construct($Cabbit) 
	{
		$this->Cabbit = $Cabbit;
	}
	public function __set($index, $value)
 	{
    	$this->vars[$index] = $value;
 	}	

	function show($name) 
	{
		$viewPath = __SITE_PATH . '/application/views' . '/' . $name . '.php';
		$layoutPath = __SITE_PATH . '/application/layout/layout.php';

		if (file_exists($viewPath) == false)
		{
			throw new Exception('Template not found in '. $viewPath);
			return false;
		}

		// Load variables
		foreach ($this->vars as $key => $value)
		{
			$$key = $value;
		}
		$view = $viewPath;
		include $layoutPath;               
	}
}

layout

PHP:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
	<h1>Cabbit 1.0</h1>
	<?php include $view;?>
</body>
</html>

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