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Building a View
Views are separated by folders; each view has its own folder located in the views
folder. Within a view's folder we define a different file for each different document
type that the view is going to support i.e. feed, HTML, PDF, and RAW. If we are
defining a view for the HTML document type, we will also need to create a folder
called tmpl, which will hold layouts (HTML templates) to render the view.
Before we start building a view class, we need to determine the name of the class.
To make the MVC work as intended, we follow a special naming convention: the
component's name, the word 'View', and the view name. The view class is stored in a
file named view.documentType.php.
Imagine we are creating an HTML view for the component 'My Extension' to view
the entity foobar. The view class would be called MyextensionViewFoobar and it
would be located in a file called view.html.php in the views folder in a subfolder
called foobar.


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