MVC

MVC stands for model-view-controller pattern, or style, yuga supports this very well

When a developer chooses to use mvc as their style with yuga, Views are accepted in two formats i.e; php views, in which case there's totally nothing new to learn, or hax views in which case there's a bit of new syntax to learn on how to manipulate and control them.

Views contain the HTML served by your application and separate your controller / application logic from your presentation logic. Views are saved in the resources/views directory. A simple view would look like this:

<!-- View stored in resources/views/test.hax.php -->

<html>
    <body>
        <h1>Hello, {{ $name }}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

Since this view is stored at resources/views/test.hax.php, it can be returned using the global view helper like this:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('test', ['name' => 'Hamnaj']);
});

// or
Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('test')->with(['name' => 'Hamnaj']);
});

As you can see, the first argument passed to the view helper corresponds to the name of the view file in the resources/views directory. The second argument is an array of data that should be made available to the view. In this case, we are passing the name variable, which is displayed in the view using Hax syntax.

Views can also be nested within sub-directories of the resources/views directory. Dot notation may be used to reference nested views. For example, if your view is stored at resources/views/users/profile.hax.php, you can reference it like as below:

return view('users.profile', $data);

// or 

return view('users.profile')->with($data);

Creating The First Available View

With the first method, you can create the first view that exists in a given array of views. This is useful if your application or package allows views to be customized or overwritten:

return view()->first(['my-views.admin', 'admin'], $data);

Passing Data To Views

As you saw in the previous examples, you may pass an array of data to views:

return view('hello', ['name' => 'Hamrad']);

When passing information in this format, the data should be an array with key / value pairs. Inside your views, you can then access each value using its corresponding key, such as <?= $key; ?>. An alternative syntax can also be used instead of passing the data array as a second parameter in the view global function as seen below:

return view('hello')->with('name', 'Hamrad');

// or 

return view('hello')->with(['name' => 'Hamrad']);

Missing View Name

The view helper method accepts an optional string in which case when given, it works as the name of the view you want to render. When not given, yuga will try to look for a view from within the resources/views directory with the name Controller/Method.php E.g

// Controller

namespace App\Controllers;

class TestController
{
    public function method()
    {
        return view();
    }
}

In the above example, Yuga will look for resources/views/Test/method.php file, and once found, it will render it

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