View Response

The View Response class simplifies APs, and WEB content responses within your application's controller class or routing closures. With its global procedural function, you can easily access the class instance without instantiating the class.

• Class namespace: \Luminova\Template\ViewResponse

Helper Function

The global helper of ViewResponse class will return instance of this class.

<?php
response(int $status = 200)

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constructor

Initialize class constructor with HTTP status code .

new ViewResponse(int $status = 200)

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setStatus

Set the HTTP status code using setStatus method.

public setStatus(int $status = 200): self

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Return Value:

ViewResponse - Instance of view response class.

encode

Set enable or disable content encoding, otherwise it will use default flag in env file enable.encoding

public encode(bool $encode): self

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Return Value:

ViewResponse - Instance of view response class.

minify

Set enable or disable content minification, otherwise it will use default flag in env file `page.minification

public minify(bool $minify): self

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Return Value:

ViewResponse - Instance of view response class.

render

Render any content format anywhere with your own customizations.Using this method allows you to pass encode or minify without using the default from env.

public render(mixed $content, $status = 200, array $headers = [],  bool $encode = true, bool $minify = false): int

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int - Return status code success as STATUS_SUCCESS, otherwise failure as STATUS_ERROR.

This can be used in router or APIs to respond content without an addition overhead in processing the contents.

Note: The default content type is application/json if not was provided in $headers.

json

Send a JSON response.

public json(array|object $content): int

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Return Value:

int - Return status code success, otherwise failure.

text

Send a plain text response.

public text(string $content): int

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Return Value:

int - Return status code success, otherwise failure.

html

Send an HTML response.

public html(string $content): int

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Return Value:

int - Return status code success, otherwise failure.

xml

Send an XML response.

public xml(string $content): int

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int - Return status code success, otherwise failure.

download

Download file from server or download response string content.

public download(string $fileOrContent, string|null $name = null, array $headers = []): bool

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bool - Return true if the download was successful, false otherwise

redirect

URL redirection, redirect to another URL.

public redirect(string $url = '/', int $response_code): void

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