- added error_reporting if devMode

- added TestController.php
- added temp function to load controllers (should load later via seo urls)
- added baseTemplate for default look and feel
- removed adding file extension -> always need to be .php!

config.base.php

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ $config->setMail([
 // all themes are in __DIR__/public/theme/
 $config->setRender([
     'theme' => 'default', //very important! it will search for a folder with this name.
-    'baseFile' => 'base.php', //this will called after all templates are rendered...
+    'baseFile' => 'base', //this will called after all templates are rendered...
     'useCache' => false, //is only on big systems good
     'cacheName' => 'defaultCache', //this is for bigger systems, ignore it
 ]);

module.base.php

@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
 $modules = [];
 
 // register controllers that can handle templates ;) need to have a render function for this
-$controllers = [];
+$controllers = [
+    'test' => \Modules\TestController::class
+];

public/index.php

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ if ($config->isMaintenance()) {
     echo 'Currently not available';
     exit;
 }
+//if devMode is on show all errors!
+if ($config->isDevMode()) {
+    error_reporting(E_ALL);
+    ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
+}
 $venom = new Venom();
 $venom->initModules($modules);
 $venom->initControllers($controllers);

src/Venom/Venom.php

@@ -22,10 +22,18 @@ class Venom
     {
         // we need to load the current controller and the current start template.
         // after this we can start the renderer
-        $this->renderer->init(null);
+        $this->renderer->init($this->findController());
         $this->renderer->render();
     }
 
+    private function findController(): ?RenderController
+    {
+        if (isset($_GET['cl'], $this->controllers[$_GET['cl']])) {
+            return $this->controllers[$_GET['cl']];
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     public function initModules(array $modules): void
     {
         foreach ($modules as $key => $moduleClass) {
@@ -50,9 +58,4 @@ class Venom
     {
 
     }
-
-    private function findController()
-    {
-
-    }
 }

src/Venom/Views/RenderController.php

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ interface RenderController
 {
     public function register(): bool;
 
-    public function render(): string;
+    public function render(VenomRenderer $renderer): bool;
 
     public function getTemplate(): string;
 }

src/Venom/Views/VenomRenderer.php

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ class VenomRenderer
     private Venom $venom;
     private ?RenderController $controller;
     private string $templateData = '';
+    private array  $vars = [];
     private string $baseTemplate = '';
     private string $templateDir = '';
     private string $assetsDir = '';
@@ -25,8 +26,8 @@ class VenomRenderer
     {
         if ($this->controller) {
             ob_start();
-            $this->controller->render();
+            $this->controller->render($this);
-            $this->templateData = ob_end_clean();
+            $this->templateData = ob_get_clean();
         }
         $this->loadBasicTemplate();
     }
@@ -36,16 +37,45 @@ class VenomRenderer
         if (file_exists($this->templateDir . $this->baseTemplate)) {
             include_once $this->templateDir . $this->baseTemplate;
         } else {
-            echo "Base Template not found...";
+            echo 'Base Template not found...';
-            echo $this->templateData;
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * function will load a template (without extension!) into a variable and return the content
+     * @param $template
+     * @param string $varName
+     * @return false|string
+     */
+    public function includeTemplate($template, $varName = '')
+    {
+        $template .= '.php';
+        if (file_exists($this->templateDir . $template)) {
+            ob_start();
+            include_once $this->templateDir . $template;
+            $data = ob_get_clean();
+            $this->vars[$varName] = $data;
+            return $data;
+        }
+        $this->vars[$varName] = '';
+        return '';
+    }
+
+    public function addVar($name, $value)
+    {
+        $this->vars[$name] = $value;
+    }
+
+    public function getVar($name)
+    {
+        return $this->vars[$name];
+    }
+
     public function init(?RenderController $controller): void
     {
         $this->controller = $controller;
         $data = Config::getInstance()->getRenderer();
-        $this->baseTemplate = $data['baseFile'] ?? 'base.php';
+        $this->baseTemplate = $data['baseFile'] . '.php' ?? 'base.php';
         $this->templateDir = __DIR__ . '/../../../tpl/' . $data['theme'] . '/';
         $this->assetsDir = __DIR__ . '/../../../public/theme/' . $data['theme'] . '/';
     }

src/modules/TestController.php

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?php
+
+
+namespace Modules;
+
+
+use Venom\Views\RenderController;
+use Venom\Views\VenomRenderer;
+
+class TestController implements RenderController
+{
+
+    public function register(): bool
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public function render(VenomRenderer $renderer): bool
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public function getTemplate(): string
+    {
+        return 'base.php';
+    }
+}

tpl/default/base.php

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta name="viewport"
+          content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0">
+    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
+    <title>VenomBase</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<header>
+    VenomCMS
+</header>
+<?= $this->templateData ?>
+</body>
+</html>