# Views

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Zest framework provides two ways for views. The default, built-in templating engine, and without a templating engine. Zest framework can't support third-party templating engines, but if you want to, you can see how to implement third-party templating engines in next section.

# Creating a View in simple way without a templating engine.

Typically, all views should be created inside the App/Views/ folder. Suppose you're going to create a home view. So in this case, save the file as App/Views/Home.php or App/Views/Home/Home.php (whatever you want).

    <!doctype html>
    <body>
        <div class="container">
            Welcome
        </div>
    </body>

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You can access the view form controller by echo View::View("Home/index");.

Your home controller should look like this:

<?php
namespace App\Controllers;
use \Zest\View\View;

class Home extends \Zest\Controller\Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        echo View::view("Home/index");
    }
}

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In the case of passing parameter, it should look like this:

$data = ['name' => 'malik'];
echo View::View("Home/index",$data);

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You can access this parameter by:

$name = $args['name'];

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# Creating a View in a simple way with a templating engine

Zest supports a built-in template engine that you can use in simple way.

        echo View::randerTemplate("Home/template.php",[
                'name' => "malik",
        ]);

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Use in view file like this:

        {% name %}

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It prints "malik" on the screen.

# Minify HTML files

ZestFramework minifies HTML by default. If you don't want to minify HTML view files, you should passed false argument in view method of the View class

First Argument: file name with path like file or path/file.
Second Argument: Any parameter that you want to be passed must be in an array.
Third Argument: Minify; true => Minify, false => Don't minify. Must be bool. Default value is true.

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