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Instead of defining and loading your view in every controller like:

<?php

class Controller_Home extends \Controller_Template
{

    public function action_index()
    {
        $this->template->body = \View::forge('home/index', $this->data);
    }

    public function action_subscribe()
    {
        $this->template->body = \View::forge('home/subscribe', $this->data);
    }

?>

This will be sufficient. It loads the expected view, based on the current controller and method.

<?php

class Controller_Home extends \Controller_Base
{

    public function action_index()
    {
        //loads views/home/index.php as body-part of the template
    }

    public function action_subscribe()
    {
        //loads views/home/subscribe.php as body-part of the template
    }

    public function action_otherpage()
    {
        $this->view = 'an/other/view.php';
        //loads views/an/other/view.php as body-part of the template
    }

?>

How to achieve this? Make a base controller, from which you extend every controller you make for your website:

<?php

abstract class Controller_Base extends \Controller_Template
{

 protected $view = '';
 protected $data = array();

 public function after($response)
 {
  if(empty($this->view))
  {
   $class = \Str::lower(substr(\Inflector::denamespace(\Request::active()->controller), 11));
   $method = \Request::active()->action;
   $this->view = "{$class}/{$method}";
  }

  $this->template->body = \View::forge($this->view, $this->data);

  parent::after($response);
 }

}