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oldy

I know I can call separate view source by doing

^{<?php echo render('example/xxxx'); ?>}

But how can I do the same thing when the separate view source also has some valuables on it?

Thanks.

oldy

I kind of sort of solved the problem on my own.

Instead of doing

View::forge('example/aaaa', $data);

I set the valuable with

$this->template->set_global('data', $data, false);

then in view,

<?php echo render('example/otherviewfile'); ?>

Now otherviewfile.php can have the valuable in it.

Is this the right way to go about it?

Harro

That is a solution, but not a very good one. It's not exactly good practice to use global variables, no matter if you're talking about Views, or about PHP itself.

You can pass variables on from a parent to a child view using

<?php echo render('example/otherviewfile', array('var' => $value)); ?>

or if you're using PHP 5.5+

<?php echo render('example/otherviewfile', $this->get()); ?>

to pass all data. For < 5.5, you could use $__data for that, but that is not officially supported.

However, hardcoding child views isn't exactly good practive either. A view should not contain code (apart from some flow-control, like if's and loops). Either pass a child View as an object from the controller (and assign your variables there like you do for the parent View), use a Presenter (and have it pass the View object), or use the Theme class, which will do all the assigning for you.

oldy

Hello Harro.

I can't thank you enough. That's the exact solution I needed.

I don't exactly hard code child view. I have the same HTML (a table with some values on it) and it has to be shown in several different actions. So I cut the table out to a separate view file. I didn't know render() can pass valuable that way. Thanks again.

Harro

http://fuelphp.com/docs/classes/view.html#/function_render

It is procedural alias for View::forge().

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