Using the application/views/_layouts/main.php in advanced modules

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• admin

  June 2018

  What's the code you are using to create the page?
• Gumster

  June 2018 edited June 2018

  Well for example:
  $this->load->module_view(SHOP_FOLDER, 'category', $this->data);
• Gumster

  June 2018

  I recalled that $this->data = $this->fuel->pagevars->retrieve(uri_segment(1));is one way of getting ANY vars, but the main layout doesn't get applied. Looking back at other advanced module layouts, I have repeated the main layout inside of the module, but this seems un-DRY
• Gumster

  June 2018

  So looking back at previous advanced modules I've done, and I think sort of like the blog module, I've ended up doing this sort of thing:

  $output = $this->load->module_view(SHOP_FOLDER, '_layouts/products/category', $this->data, TRUE);
              $this->output->set_output($output);
  

  This is necessary because of the HMVC structure?
• admin

  June 2018

  Correct. You could also try the following:

  $vars = array(); // ... add any other $vars to your page outside of the CMS
  $this->fuel->pages->render('my_uri', $vars, array('view_module' => SHOP_FOLDER));
  
• Gumster

  June 2018 edited June 2018

  yes - that's much neater, plus handles the layout in the 3rd arg
  array('view_module' => SHOP_FOLDER, 'layout' => 'shop_main')

  Many thanks!
• Gumster

  June 2018

  I anticipated that

  $this->fuel->pages->render('category', $this->data, array('view_module' => SHOP_FOLDER, 'layout' => 'shop_main'));

  would render the 'category' view inside the 'shop_main' layout from the SHOP_FOLDER module when used from a shop module controller. But in fact the /application/ 'main' layout is used (which isn't named 'shop_main' so I guess that key is ignored). So the 'view_module' key doesn't set the layout to be from the same folder (understandable) but is there a property that would make use of a module layout file?

  I realise I'm now asking the opposite of how the thread began!! I'm fine keeping the layout in the application folder, which is what I wanted, but I'm curious!

  My folder structure in the module is vanilla HMVC:

  application
  -views
  category.php
  --_layouts
  ---shop_main.php
• admin

  June 2018

  I believe the reason why that layout key isn't working is probably because it's not defined as a layout in MY_fuel_layouts.php. In that case, there is a "module" property you can specify in your layout definition as SHOP_FOLDER.

  $config['layouts']['shop_main'] = array(
      'module' => SHOP_FOLDER,
      'fields'    => array(....)
  );
  
• Gumster

  September 2018 edited September 2018

  OK, so this is a bit late, but I found a solution!

  In MY_fuel_layouts.php as you suggested:
  /**
  * For shop module
  */
  $config['layouts']['shop_main'] = array(
  'module' => SHOP_FOLDER
  );

  then in the controller:

      $this->page_props = [
          'view_module' => SHOP_FOLDER,
          'layout' => 'shop_main',
          'views_path' => SHOP_PATH.'/views/',
          'render_mode' => 'views'
      ];
  

  ....
  $this->data['layout'] = $this->page_props['layout'];
  $this->fuel->pages->render('categories', $this->data, $this->page_props);