Extending View?

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.

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