How do you use absolute paths with Volt for Views, Layouts, Partials and Extends

Please do not suggest work arounds using relative paths. This question is simple i need absolute paths working nothing else.

if you have 10x folders deep in your controllers and a single common view embeded as a partial then you need to rewrite the relative paths 10x to suit each level of the controller subfolders. With absolute paths you have only a single path required and a single change when updating it, as you can use variables.

a project with 10x controller subfolders is not suitable for relative only paths, this is definetly a problem for me

one change in folder level breaks all relative paths, my only current solution is to make a duplicate view for each folder level

Hi Yes i am currently using a modular setup similar to yours.

$di->set('view', function() { $view = new View(); $view->setViewsDir(realpath( DIR . '/views/' )); $view->setLayoutsDir('../../common/layouts/'); $view->setTemplateAfter('master/index');

However i notice you have the $view->setPartialsDir() written inside the module whereas i have been writing the partials paths within the views by using this may offer me a better solution, i would still prefer to be able to use absolute paths for edges cases however for my current usage by using the setPartialsDr() method maybe sufficent.

I would still request absolute paths be added / available for developers though i was almost considering using twig instead to replace volt. However i will try this and see how far i get.

Thanks for your help Daniel

I've created something like that

In controller

$template = $this->template->getString('user_experiences/ang-templates/experiences_form.volt');

$data = array(
    'id' => $ue->getId(),
    'template' => $template,
    'experience' => $experience
);
$this->response->setStatusCode(200, 'OK');
$this->response->setJsonContent($data, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);
$this->response->send();

in services

$di->set('template', function() use ($config) {
    return new APP\Extra\Template($config->application->cacheDir, $config->application->viewsDir);
});

<?php
namespace APP\Extra;

use Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt\Compiler;

class Template
{
    var $compiledPath;
    var $templatesDir;
    var $compiler;

    function __construct($compiledPath, $templatesDir)
    {
        $this->compiledPath = $compiledPath;
        $this->templatesDir = $templatesDir;

        $this->compiler = new Compiler();

        $this->compiler->setOptions(array(
            "compiledPath" => $this->compiledPath,
            'compiledSeparator' => '_',
            'stat' => true,
            'compileAlways' => true
        ));
    }

    public function getString($templatePath, $data = null)
    {
        if (!empty($data)) {
            extract($data);
        }
        $this->compiler->compile($this->templatesDir . $templatePath);

        ob_start();

        include $this->compiler->getCompiledTemplatePath();

        return ob_get_clean();
    }
}