[NFR] Create a view method to simple render template to a string.

[sergeyklay]

As a regular user I would like to have something like this:

$html = $view->toString($template, $params);
mail("[email protected]", "My subject", $html);

without setting any additional params eg base path, layout, base template, etc.

[Jeckerson]

This is actually useful. Not only for email templates, but for ajax responses when you need to return rendered html inside json.

[JABirchall]

Wait, doesn't view->getRender() already do this?

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/blob/v3.4.0/phalcon/mvc/view.zep#L1118-L1165

[ViltusVilks]

As I remember it is not so trivial. GetRender triggers events and can break something at the end. Partial can be used.

Otherwise only forking can do safe render.

[Jurigag]

@JABirchall you still have here controllerName and actionName. Right now this can be achieved by some hacky way - like simply create temporary new volt template in /tmp and then render it, but this is just workaround.

[niden]

Resolved in #14058

[EcLaboratory]

Watching the changes in code it seems the only real change is not to fire events. Is it planned to make available a method to do the action an the begining of this blog exposed?

I mean

$html = $view->toString($template, $params);

where $template is an string with the volt template content and $params an array to use to render the template

Thanks in advance

[niden]

@EcLaboratory This particular change is for the View which will take a template as a controller/action/view and will load it and send it back.

If you want a specific template to be parsed and returned, you can use the View\Simple component which does the same thing.