Views
Making a View
To create a View use the tr_view() helper function. This function takes two arguments:
$view- The view to be returned. This uses dot notation.$data- An array of values to be extracted in the view.
tr_view('books.index', ['data' => 'my data']);Because a view uses dot notation it can return different templates based on context. These contexts are: "Admin" and "Front-end".
Admin Views
Admin views are located under resources/pages by default. When a controller returns a view in the admin context it will return the view from the specified folder.
Take this example view, in the admin context it will return the resources/pages/books/index.php template file.
tr_view('books.index', ['data' => 'my data']);Front-end Views
Front-end views are located under resources/views by default. When a controller returns a view in the front-end context it will return the view from the specified folder.
Take this example view, in the front-end context it will return the resources/views/books/index.php template file.
tr_view('books.index', ['data' => 'my data']);View Page Title
To set a views page <head> <title> tag use the setTitle() method.
tr_view('books.add')->setTitle('Add Book');Templating
When a view is loaded like resources/views/books/index.php and resources/pages/books/index.php the passes array will be unpacked using the php extract() function.
So, a view with ['data' => 'my data'] passed to it have a $data variable with the string 'my data' in its template file.
// index.php
echo '<p>' . $data . '</p>';Will output,
<p>my data</p>