Quick Tip: Convenience Hacks for Passing Data to Views
In MVC based architectures, working with template engines is an inevitable part of the development routine. It usually goes like this: we prepare and pass the data to the view. In the view, we print them based on our layout design.
Here is a basic example of how it works using Twig.
<?php
// Twig initialization
// Preparing data
$user = 'user data';
$posts = 'posts';
$comments = 'comments';
$twig->render('author.page', [
'user' => $user,
'posts' => $posts,
'comments' => $comments,
]);
// ...
There are times, however, when the number of variables might be much higher than this: ten or more. In that case, we’ll have a tall list of variables (as an associative array), being passed to the respective template. It gets messy and unreadable quickly.
In this post, we’re going to talk about a trick for passing the defined variables to the view in a somewhat more convenient way: we can use the built-in compact() function to handpick the data we need:
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