What is a View and how to use it ?

[Evaelis]

Hello there!
I actually want to create a custom page for my addon. So I first added it to the navbar :

class DonatorHandler_Navigation_Tabs
{
        public static function addNavbarTab(array &$extraTabs, $selectedTabId)
        {  
                $extraTabs['donation'] = array(
                    'title' => new XenForo_Phrase('donatorhandler_navbar_title'),
                    'href'  => XenForo_Link::buildPublicLink('donation'),
                    'selected' => ($selectedTabId == new XenForo_Phrase('donatorhandler_navbar_title')),
                    'position'  =>  'end'
                );
        }
}

Then I needed to create a route, as I don't need any params at the moment here is the code :

class DonatorHandler_Route_Prefix_Public implements XenForo_Route_Interface
{
    public function match($routePath, Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request, XenForo_Router $router)
    {
        return $router->getRouteMatch('DonatorHandler_ControllerPublic_Donation', 'index', 'donation');
    }
    public function buildLink($originalPrefix, $outputPrefix, $action, $extension, $data, array &$extraParams)
    {
        return XenForo_Link::buildBasicLink($outputPrefix, $action, $extension);
    }
}

Here are the question :
First the getRouteMatch use my DonatorHandler_ControllerPublic_Donation which call a responseView.

class DonatorHandler_ControllerPublic_Donation extends XenForo_ControllerPublic_Abstract
{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        $viewParams = array(
            'userNotFound' => true,
        );
        return $this->responseView('DonatorHandler_ViewPublic_Donation_View', 'donation', $viewParams);
    }
}

class DonatorHandler_ViewPublic_Donation_View extends XenForo_ViewPublic_Base
{
    public function renderHtml()
    {
      
    }
}

What is the ViewPublic used for ? What can I modify with it ?

I took the basic code from the Member page (I left the userNotFound for my test)

 

[Liam W]

The view class is used to change parameters or output, such as if json is needed.

You don't actually need to include a view class (you can use an empty string), although you can also specify a non-existent class which will allow other add-ons to extend it and add their own logic.

For standard HTML templates, no view class is needed.

Liam

 

[Evaelis]

I will try to manipulate them and see what happens.
However I don't think I need them for this addon.
Thank you Liam!