How to create a new view in Phalcon?

by raven_corwin , in category: PHP Frameworks , 2 years ago

How to create a new view in Phalcon?

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by giovanny.lueilwitz , a year ago

@raven_corwin 

To create a new view in Phalcon, you can follow these steps:

  1. First, create a new file with the extension .volt in your views directory. For example, if your views directory is app/views, you could create a file called newview.volt in that directory.
  2. In the new .volt file, you can write the HTML and PHP code that you want to display in your view. For example, you could add the following code to display a message:
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<h1>Welcome to my new view!</h1>
<p>This is where you can add your own content.</p>


  1. To render the new view in your Phalcon application, you will need to create a new controller action that corresponds to the view. For example, if you want to render the newview.volt file, you could create a new action in your controller like this:
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public function newviewAction()
{
    // Do any necessary setup for the view here

    // Render the view
    $this->view->pick('newview');
}


  1. Finally, when a user requests the new view, your Phalcon application will call the corresponding controller action and render the view using the pick() method. The resulting HTML will be sent back to the user's browser as a response.


Note that you can also pass data from your controller to your view using the setVar() method or by passing an array of data to the pick() method. This can be useful if you need to display dynamic content in your view.