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How to change path to views?
  • Johnny FreemanJohnny Freeman
    I am building a cms which will have a themes/ folder in the root directory. It will contain the theme's view files and assets. How can I change the views path so that a theme's view doesn't have to be in a view/ folder. Here is an example tree: index.php
    themes/
    |-site_themes/
    |-|-some_theme/
    |-|-|-css/
    |-|-|-img/
    |-|-|-js/
    |-|-|-home.mustache
    |-|-|-two_col.mustache
    |-|-|-three_col.mustache
    |-|-another_theme/
    |-|-|-css/
    |-|-|-img/
    |-|-|-js/
    |-|-|-home.php
    |-|-|-about.php
    |-|-|-contact.php
    |-admin_themes/ So in the frontend controller... // I'm paraphrasing but in a nutshell...
    // add the theme's path and return a the theme's view
    \Fuel::add_path(DOCROOT . $current_theme, true);
    return Response::forge( View::forge('home') ); This, of course, expects the view to be in DOCROOT.$current_theme.'/views/'. Any and all ideas are welcomed. Thanks!
  • PeterPeter
    First, in your case, shouldn't:
    \Fuel::add_path(DOCROOT . $current_theme, true);

    be:
    \Fuel::add_path(DOCROOT . 'themes' . DS . $current_theme, true);

    ? Anyway, I don't know if there is a way to add your path without the views directory, but what you can do is extend the core. In /core/class/view.php on line 387 (1.1/develop) you see:
    if (($path = \Fuel::find_file('views', $file, '.'.$this->extension, false, false)) === false)

    If you'd extend this class and add this function in that class and modify the 'views' to whatever you want, it should work (and off course add the path DOCROOT). But why do you want your views in the public folder anyway?
  • dpetriedpetrie
    Look into using the Themes class, it allows for an external theme folder with assets
  • Julian EsperatJulian Esperat
    You still can use a full absolute path to create the view:
    $view = View::forge(APPPATH.'themes'.DS.$your_theme.DS..'yourview.mustache');

    That way, you can put it wherever you want.
  • Johnny FreemanJohnny Freeman
    Awesome! I'll give this a try.
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