Views¶

Read the CakePHP docs on Views: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views.html.

What is a View?¶

Views are the V in MVC. Views are responsible for generating the specific output required for the request. Often this is in the form of HTML, XML, or JSON, but streaming files and creating PDF’s that users can download are also responsibilities of the View Layer.

Code¶

From previous example of Recipes, we will be placing out view file at /app/View/Recipes/view.ctp:

<div class="recipes view">
    <h2><?php echo $recipe['Recipe']['title']; ?></h2>

    <p><?php echo $recipe['Recipe']['body']; ?></p>
</div>

If it is Recipes plugin’s view, it would be found at /app/Plugin/Recipes/View/view.ctp.