Beautiful View

tl;dr

Add some beauty to your application with Beautiful Views. Designed as a drop in replacement for Kohana's View class it extends the functionality you already know with template and view data separation.

Separation is acheived with ViewModels and Templates allowing you to mix and match PHP, Mustache and JSON templating with your various ViewModels.

• Works with Kohana 3.2 +
• Provides various template solutions: PHP, Mustache, JSON.
• Use ViewModels to isolate your view logic
• Tested using PHPUnit
• Download
• See some Examples
• Read the Wiki to learn more

Quick Examples

Comparison of old and new View usage

<?php
echo new View('example', array('title' => 'A title'));
echo new View('example', new View_Example);

Both are compatible with Beautiful View. However there is a difference in your templates, using an array will result in the array being exposed by extract(). If you pass in a descendant object of ViewModel then the object will be the only variable exposed via $view.

Using Mustache template

<?php
echo new View(new Template_Mustache('example'), new View_Example);

// Or set this in your bootstrap
Template::$default_class = 'Template_Mustache';

// Then just
echo new View('example', new View_Example);

Controller Example of responding to XHR and HTTP

<?php
class Controller_Example extends Controller {
	
	public function action_index()
	{
		$template = 'example';

		if ($this->request->is_ajax())
		{
			$template = new Template_JSON('example');
		}

		$view = new View($template, new View_Example);
		$this->response->body($view);
	}

}

Author & Copyright

Luke Morton 2011

License

MIT

Contributing

Forking fork it and send me a pull request.