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horatio

In one of my modules I extend a controller in app/classes/controller. In the base controller I load a ViewModel. It doesn't seem like this is possible, since it always assumes the controller loading the ViewModel is in the active module's namespace, so it can't find the ViewModel. From ViewModel::forge:

$namespace = \Request::active() ? ucfirst(\Request::active()->module) : '';
$class = $namespace.'\\View_'.ucfirst(str_replace(array('/', DS), '_', $viewmodel));

The ViewModel docs says something about using ViewModels from other namespaces but it doesn't seem to work http://docs.fuelphp.com/general/viewmodels.html

Using ViewModels from other namespaces or not View_ prefixed If you want to use these, you have to use the full classname with the forge(), including the namespace.

This doesn't appear to be the case, since the class is always prefixed with the active module namespace. Is there something I am missing?

Jelmer Schreuder

This is how it actually searches for the class: https://github.com/fuel/core/blob/1.3/develop/classes/viewmodel.php#L33

horatio

Jelmer Schreuder wrote on Friday 13th of July 2012:

This is how it actually searches for the class: https://github.com/fuel/core/blob/1.3/develop/classes/viewmodel.php#L33

Yes, the code I posted above is from that function. The problem is that it uses Request::active()->module as the namespace, but the ViewModel I'm trying to load is not in the active module's namespace. If I do as the documentation says and specify the full class name and namespace, it will still try to use Request::active()->module as the namespace

Jelmer Schreuder

It makes 2 attempts, the first one to the current Module's namespace and the second one to global at which point your code should just work.

horatio

Ah yeah I missed that

It was actually the View it wasn't finding not the ViewModel. Setting $_view fixed it Thanks for the help

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