16
Jan
2011
Drew

Zend Framework style View object

Below you'll find a Zend Framework styled View object in a very minimal format. I originally wrote this object in 2004 for use in the original Arizona PHP Guru website. This object is a few years old, it's just one of many I have sitting around, and has been chosen to demonstrate the source view options I've configured. Using this object is very easy. First you implement something similar to the following code in your PHP application:
<?php
    function draw_sidebar() {
        require_once('View.php');
        $view = new View('common/sidebar'); // Let's load a sidebar element
        $view->elements = array(
            'Home' => '/home',
            'Images' => '/images',
            'Blog' => '/blog',
            'Reviews' => '/blog/reviews'
        );
       return $view->render();
    }
?>
Then you'd implement something like the following inside of your views/common/sidebar.phtml template.
<div id="sidebar">
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($this->elements as $text => $link): ?>
        <li><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php echo $text; ?></a></li>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
</div>
And finally, the object itself:
<?php
    /**
     * Zend style view object
     * --------------------------
     * Usage:
     *   $view = new View('view/path');
     *   $view->var = 'foo';
     *   echo $view->render();
     */
if(!defined('VIEW_PATH')) { define('VIEW_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/views'); }
class View {
    public $controller, $view, $filename, $status;
    function __construct($view) {
        $this->view = $view;
        $this->filename = VIEW_PATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->controller . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->view . '.phtml';
        if(!file_exists($this->filename)) {
            throw new Exception('Unable to locate view at "' . $this->filename . '"');
            $this->status = false;
        } else {
            $this->status = true;
        }
    }
    function render($return=true) {
        ob_start();
        require_once($this->filename);
        $result = ob_get_clean();
        if($return) {
            return $result;
        } else {
            echo $result;
        }
    }
}
?>
Category: 
PHP
Download: 
view.php.txt