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Extending View? - easyD - 05-06-2020
Hello! I'm trying to extend dashboard.php view with layout.php view. Layout.php is one level up compared to dashboard.php.
I tried
"../layout.php"
"Views/..path../layout.php"
but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?
![[Image: view.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/MH2jc8W9/view.jpg)
Edit...
I found out that this is working... "themes\default\layout". Any other solutions whit which I would avoid using the name of the theme (so in this case - theme with name "default")?
RE: Extending View? - kilishan - 05-06-2020
The way I've handled this is to create a new instance of the renderer service, giving it the path to my themes folder:
PHP Code:
$path = ROOTPATH ."themes/{$this->theme}";
$renderer = Services::renderer($path, null, false);
Passing false as the last argument gives you a non-shared instance. Now, when you use things like $this->extend(), or $this->include() within your views, it will always find it within your theme directory. In the example I linked to, it supports multiple themes within the Themes directory.
If you need to get a view from the normal path anywhere, you can still use echo view('...'), which uses the main, shared, instance of the View library that points to the default location.
RE: Extending View? - easyD - 05-06-2020
Killishan thank you very much! It works
This is the code I wrote based on your suggestion. PHP Code:
$path = APPPATH . 'views/themes/default/'; // {$this->theme}
$view = \Config\Services::renderer($path, null, false);
return $view->setVar('data', $data)->render('customer/dashboard');
So now I can in views files use only <?= $this->extend('layout') ?> for extending the view.