How to configure Volt's compiledPath folder

Perfect, worked perfectly. Again, thanks!

Is this in the documentation anywhere? I had the same question but none of the code examples for when registering Volt as a template engine specified you could use a lambda function instead of a string.

@quasipickle These are the options available to set up Volt: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/volt.html#setting-up-the-volt-engine

I am also having a problem getting Volt to work. First of all, if you want to recognize the .volt extension, then why would you use .phtml when registerimng the engine: ".phtml" => function($view, $di)

Also, I am new to Phalcon, but have worked with MVC frameworks for a while and never had anywhere near this amount of difficulty getting a templating engine to work. The documentation is pretty much worthless other than the vague code snippets which are not really described well.

I have a simple CRUD app and I want to convert the phtml files in the view to Volt files. I am using the above mentioned code snippet from the Volt documentation page and then I get a "volt directory can't be written to" error message. I then created a "volt" folder in a "cache" folder under the "app" directory, set permissions to 777, and pointed my 'compiledPath' to it yet that doesn't work. This is simply ridiculous! Could someone please explain, step-by-step, in 6th grade language, what exactly needs to be done to get Volt to work in a fresh Phalcon project. I am literally pulling my hair out.

Thank you for in advance for any help you can give.

Hi,

I would suggest you to use phalcon developer tools to generate a basic app skeleton (wich will be volt enabled) and create all the crud controllers/actions you need.

Otherwise, have a look at all the demo apps that are available on phalcon github area (like that forum, invo, vokuro ... they all use volt template engine).

good luck

// app/config/config.php

return new \Phalcon\Config([
    'database' => [
        'adapter'     => 'Mysql',
        'host'        => 'localhost',
        'username'    => '',
        'password'    => '',
        'dbname'      => 'blog',
        'charset'     => 'utf8',
    ],
    'application' => [
        'appDir'         => APP_PATH . '/',
        'controllersDir' => APP_PATH . '/controllers/',
        'modelsDir'      => APP_PATH . '/models/',
        'migrationsDir'  => APP_PATH . '/migrations/',
        'viewsDir'       => APP_PATH . '/views/',
        'pluginsDir'     => APP_PATH . '/plugins/',
        'libraryDir'     => APP_PATH . '/library/',
        'cacheDir'       => BASE_PATH . '/cache/',
        'baseUri'        => '/',
    ]
]);

// app/config/services.php

/**
 * Setting up the view component
 */
$di->setShared('view', function () {
    $config = $this->getConfig();

    $view = new Phalcon\Mvc\View();
    $view->setDI($this);
    $view->setViewsDir($config->application->viewsDir);

    $view->registerEngines([
        '.volt' => function ($view) {
            $config = $this->getConfig();

            $volt = new Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt($view, $this);

            $volt->setOptions([
                'compiledPath' => $config->application->cacheDir,
                'compiledSeparator' => '_'
            ]);

            return $volt;
        },
        '.phtml' => PhpEngine::class

    ]);

    return $view;
});

// public/index.php

<?php
use Phalcon\Di\FactoryDefault;

error_reporting(E_ALL);

define('BASE_PATH', dirname(__DIR__));
define('APP_PATH', BASE_PATH . '/app');

try {

    /**
     * The FactoryDefault Dependency Injector automatically registers
     * the services that provide a full stack framework.
     */
    $di = new FactoryDefault();

    /**
     * Read services
     */
    include APP_PATH . "/config/services.php";

    /**
     * Get config service for use in inline setup below
     */
    $config = $di->getConfig();

    /**
     * Include Autoloader
     */
    include APP_PATH . '/config/loader.php';

    /**
     * Handle the request
     */
    $application = new \Phalcon\Mvc\Application($di);

    echo $application->handle()->getContent();

} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage() . '<br>';
    echo '<pre>' . $e->getTraceAsString() . '</pre>';
}

I'd be happy to help, but you should post your own thread rather than reviving a 3 year old thread.

and thread is marked as "solved" !

I'd be happy to help, but you should post your own thread rather than reviving a 3 year old thread.

Thank you for the help! I will try the developer tools.

@Dylan - Good point! I was just frustrated and this thread just added to the many questions I had about setting up Volt!