Phalcon PHP - Multiple views directories

Question

I'm having problem with my Phalcon PHP project. I'm building single module app with multiple MVC directories inside.

Every each module has it's own "views" directory, which contains action templates. (index.volt, show.volt etc.). Layouts are loaded from modules/layout/ and then set with

$this->view->setLayout('index');

in main controller initialize().

That's how it looks like:

    .
    ├── application
    │   └── modules
    │       ├── index
    │       │   ├── ControllerBase.php
    │       │   ├── IndexController.php
    │       │   └── views
    │       │       └── index.volt
    │       ├── layout
    │       │   ├── index.volt
    │       │   └── admin.volt
    │       ├── page
    │       │   ├── Page.php
    │       │   ├── PageAdminController.php
    │       │   ├── PageController.php
    │       │   ├── admin_views
    │       │   │   ├── edit.volt
    │       │   │   └── index.volt
    │       │   └── views
    │       │       └── show.volt
    

This is my view service:

$di->set('view', function () use ($mainConfig) {

    $view = new View();

    $view->setLayoutsDir(APPLICATION_PATH . "/modules/layout/");

    $view->registerEngines(array(
        '.volt' => function ($view, $di) use ($mainConfig) {

            $volt = new VoltEngine($view, $di);

            $volt->setOptions(array(
                'compiledPath' => $mainConfig->application->cacheDir,
                'compiledSeparator' => '_'
            ));

            return $volt;
        },
        '.phtml' => 'Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Php'
    ));

    return $view;
}, true);

I want to set views directory right in the main controller (ControllerBase.php), beacuse it depends on current controllers name.

For example:

myapp.com => /modules/index/views/index.volt
myapp.com/page/show/2 => /modules/page/views/show.volt

So my question is: How can i set views directory and searching pattern to match my structure?

Answer 1

Nailed it!

ControllerBase.php

$moduleName = $this->dispatcher->getControllerName();
$actionName = $this->dispatcher->getActionName();

// set view for current Controller and Action
$this->view->setMainView('layout/index');
$this->view->pick($moduleName."/views/".$actionName);

Services.php

$view->setViewsDir(APPLICATION_PATH . "/modules/");

I'm simply picking current view by myself, using View::pick()