Views

Saturn uses plain PHP files for the view layer. These files can be placed in any views subdirectory. Using a view is as simple as displaying the output from the view function.

The following example will show the contents of either /application/about/views/example.php or /application/views/example.php.

class About extends \Core\Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        echo view('example');
    }
}

The following example will show the contents of /application/news/views/example.php, /application/about/views/news/example.php or /application/views/news/example.php.

class About extends \Core\Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        echo view('news/example');
    }
}

Passing data

The view function accepts an associative array as secondary parameter. Data in this array will be expanded to variables within the view, using the array keys as variable names.

class About extends \Core\Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        echo view('example',[
            'title' => 'About us'
        ]);
    }
}

<section id="about">
    <h1><?=$title?></h1>
</section>