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nixphp/view
A lightweight, native PHP templating system — with layout inheritance and block support.
This plugin brings a clean, minimal templating system to your NixPHP application. It lets you define base layouts, use content blocks, and safely output user data — all with pure PHP.
🧩 Part of the official NixPHP plugin collection. Install it when you need structured HTML rendering — without external engines like Twig or Blade.
📦 Features
- ✅ Define layouts and reuse views via
setLayout()andblock()/endblock() - ✅ Render views with
view('template', [...]) - ✅ Return response objects with
render('template', [...]) - ✅ Safe output via
s()(escape helper) - ✅ Fully native PHP – no new syntax or templating engine required
📥 Installation
The plugin auto-registers itself and adds the view(), render(), assets() and s() helpers globally.
🚀 Usage
🧱 Rendering views
Use the view() helper to render a template and return the result as a string:
This is useful if you want to process or wrap the HTML manually.
Use the render() helper to return a response object instead (e.g. in your controller):
This renders the view and wraps it in a proper response, ready to be returned from any route handler.
To load a template file in another folder, you can use the dot notation:
Or even multiple levels:
This works for both view() and render().
🧩 Layouts & Blocks
Use setLayout() to define a parent layout, and block()/endblock() to inject content:
views/page.phtml
views/layout.phtml
🛡️ Escape output
Use the s() helper to sanitize output (HTML-escaped):
🎨 Asset Management (CSS & JS)
The plugin includes a small, flexible asset collector used inside layouts to include CSS and JavaScript files.
Assets are added inside views or controllers using the assets() helper:
Output in layout files
Use assets()->render('css') or assets()->render('js') inside your layout:
What gets generated?
CSS:
Classic JS:
Module JS:
Internals
All paths are automatically HTML-escaped via s().
🔁 Helper Comparison
| Helper | Returns | Use case |
|---|---|---|
render() |
ResponseInterface |
Ideal for controller return values |
view() |
string |
For manual output or further processing |
assets() |
string |
Include CSS & JS files in layouts |
s() |
string |
Escape output |
🔍 Internals
view()resolves and loads.phtmltemplates from the directories listed inview:paths(defaults toviews/first withapp/views/as a fallback) before checking any registered plugin or framework views.setLayout()nests the rendered content into a wrapper view.- Blocks are buffered and stored internally until rendered.
⚙️ Configurable view locations
Set the view:paths configuration to control where templates are resolved inside your application. This plugin ships with src/config.php, which defaults to:
The entries are resolved relative to BASE_PATH when they are not absolute paths, so you can place templates anywhere and order them however you need. The plugin checks each directory in order before falling back to registered plugin or framework view paths.
✅ Requirements
nixphp/framework>= 1.0
📄 License
MIT License.
