Documentation: View Templates

Your project view templates SHOULD be located in templates folder. Folder structure:

tags: contains tags (template parts) to be processed by View Language API while view is processed
views: contains views (template recipes) to be processed by View Language API

A view (located in views folder above) is seen as a template that may be composed of:

HTML tags
pseudo-HTML tag libraries (located in tags folder above): user defined, to be compiled when response is composed
macro tags: predefined tags destined to be expanded before compilation (eg: include statements)
expressions: sections of view language programming (variables + control structures) to be compiled into PHP later on

Functional requirements so that above API will be able to process above (most fulfilled already when framework is installed):

a <templating> tag with following body in stdout.xml:
<templating compilations_path="compilations" tags_path="templates/tags" templates_path="templates/views" templates_extension="html"/>
a <resolvers> tag with following body in stdout.xml:
<resolver format="html" content_type="text/html" class="Lucinda\Project\ViewResolvers\Html" charset="UTF-8"/>
a Lucinda\Project\ViewResolvers\Html that resolves html response format using View Language API compiler
a compilations folder in project root where intermediate PHP compilations will be saved
all views/tags you develop MUST have .html extension

To learn more how to work with views and also make it work for other formats than html, check Tutorial!

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