setLayoutsDir don't support absolute path

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setLayoutsDir don't support absolute path

Emilio Degiovanni Nov '14

Created Nov '14	Last Reply Jun '15	Replies 3	Views 1027	Votes 0

Emilio Degiovanni 32.3k

Nov '14

I have found a bug, if I have not committed myself For example in my Module.php

            //This works OK
            $di['view'] = function() {
                $view = new \Phalcon\Mvc\View();
                $view->registerEngines(array(
                    ".volt" => 'Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt'
                ));
                $view->setViewsDir(__DIR__ . '/views/');
                $view->setLayoutsDir('../../../layouts');
                $view->setTemplateAfter('main');

                return $view;
            };

//but if the path is absolute, doesn't work
//APPLICATION_PATH = /real/path/to/my/app
$view->setLayoutsDir(APPLICATION_PATH  . '/../../layouts');

Am I wrong? or this is a issue?

Aboozar Ghaffari
10.5k

Accepted
answer

Nov '14

According to the official documentation:

Sets the layouts sub-directory. Must be a directory under the views directory. Depending of your platform, always add a trailing slash or backslash

So always you shoud use a relative path based on your views directory.

Thien Tran · Answer 1 · 2014-11-27T22:32:06-07:00

If you path is absolute so you dont used relatively, for example above should look like

    $view->setLayoutsDir(APPLICATION_PATH  . 'youapp/views/layouts');

kevas · Answer 2 · 2015-06-12T02:52:15-07:00

If you are using a symlink in the application and you need define method setViewsDir to the symlinks directory and the layout in another directory outside the symlink directory, you must use absolute path.

Here is my solution:

$di->set('view', function() {
    $view = new MyView();
    return $view;
});

class MyView extends \Phalcon\Mvc\View {

    protected function _engineRender($engines, $viewPath, $silence, $mustClean, \Phalcon\Cache\BackendInterface $cache = null) {        
        $dirname = dirname($viewPath);
        $path = realpath($dirname);

        if($path !== false && $dirname != '.' && $dirname != '..') {
            $repeat = (count(explode('/', $this->getActiveRenderPath()))-3);
            $viewPathArr = explode('/', $viewPath);
            $viewPathArrSlice = array_slice($viewPathArr, 1, -1);
            $viewPath = str_repeat('../', $repeat) . implode('/', $viewPathArrSlice) . '/' . basename($viewPath);
        }

        parent::_engineRender($engines, $viewPath, $silence, $mustClean, $cache = null);
    }

}

And then you can write absolute path to the method setLayoutsDir:

$view->setLayoutsDir('/var/www/web/app/views/layoutDir/');