Exporting variables to the view templates

View Template files are those with the extension template.php (this is different from Site Template (Theme) in /templates). View Template files are located in /apps/{name of your app}/folders.

To export variables to the view templates, simply call loadTemplateFile method. For example: the following method displays an RSS feed of the content of your application.

public function RSS()
{
    global $SystemConfig, $SiteTemplate;
    
    header('Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8');
    // the following variables will be exported to the template file
    $rss_blog_title= $this->getConfig('str_title');
    $rss_author_name = $this->getConfig('str_author_name');
    $rss_author_email = $this->getConfig('str_author_email');
    $rss_desc =  $this->getConfig('str_description');
    $rss_maxposts= $this->getConfig('int_max_entries_in_rss'); // Maximum number of entries to be displayed in the RSS file 
    
    $total_item_count = $this->getTotalItemCount(true);
    // The limit is introduced to prevent memory exhaustion
    // hardcode all item limit if there's no limit specified
    if ($rss_maxposts == 0 || $rss_maxposts > $total_item_count) $rssmax_posts = $total_item_count;
    if ($rss_maxposts > 500) $rss_maxposts = 500;
    $latestposts = $this->getAllItems('*','status > 0', 0,$rss_maxposts,'date_created','DESC');
    $css_path = '/templates/'.$SiteTemplate->getDefaultTemplateName().'/rss.css';
    // Now load the template file
    $this->loadTemplateFile('rss',compact(array_keys(get_defined_vars())));
}

The key is in the following code

$this->loadTemplateFile('rss',compact(array_keys(get_defined_vars())));

Now, in your template file rss.template.php, you will have access to those variables as if it was local. For example:

echo $rss_blog_title;