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Defined in

libraries/joomla/application/component/view.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor
display	Execute and display a template script.
assign	Assigns variables to the view script via differing strategies.
assignRef	Assign variable for the view (by reference).
escape	Escapes a value for output in a view script.
get	Method to get data from a registered model or a property of the view
getModel	Method to get the model object
getLayout	Get the layout.
getName	Method to get the view name
setModel	Method to add a model to the view. We support a multiple model single view system by which models are referenced by classname. A caveat to the classname referencing is that any classname prepended by JModel will be referenced by the name without JModel, eg. JModelCategory is just Category.
setLayout	Sets the layout name to use
setLayoutExt	Allows a different extension for the layout files to be used
setEscape	Sets the _escape() callback.
addTemplatePath	Adds to the stack of view script paths in LIFO order.
addHelperPath	Adds to the stack of helper script paths in LIFO order.
loadTemplate	Load a template file -- first look in the templates folder for an override
loadHelper	Load a helper file

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.application.component.view' );

Examples

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