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Template Engine Smarty

• myMVC makes use of the robust Template Engine Smarty Version 4.
• All Templates you define in your module's template folder.
• myMVC provides a standard set of template files if you create your module via emvicy.php (see: Creating a Module).
• See the directory structure of the standard set of templates: /3.3.x/directory-structure#modules-moduleName-templates

Smarty
For more Information about how to code templates with powerful Smarty Template Engine please visit the official Website https://www.smarty.net/

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assign any variable to your template

assign any variable to your template (assuming module is Foo)

\Foo\View\Index::init()->assign('myFrontendVariable', 'Any Content');

In your template you can access that assigned variable this way:

{$myFrontendVariable}

autoAssign variables

If you created your module via myMVC.phar (see: Creating a Module) or you added additional context information to your route by yourself, you can easily auto assign all additional route infos:

autoAssign variables to template (assuming module is Foo)

\Foo\View\Index::init()->autoAssign(
    Route::getCurrent()
);

render

render the template (assuming module is Foo)

\Foo\View\Index::init()->render();

controlling rendering

switch on/off rendering templates

render off

Event::run('mvc.view.render.off');

render on

Event::run('mvc.view.render.on');

controlling echo out

switch on/off to echo out the rendered result

echoOut off

Event::run('mvc.view.echoOut.off');

echoOut on

Event::run('mvc.view.echoOut.on');

Accessing Class methods and objects in smarty template

You can access any myMVC Class directly in the templates.

Examples

// gives BasePath
{MVC\Config::get_MVC_BASE_PATH()}

// debugs additional info of the current route object
{MVC\Debug::info(MVC\Route::getCurrent()->get_additional())}

Also you can access methods of assigned Objects:

Example

{$oDTRoutingAdditional->get_sContent()}