Version 5.0.0 of View package is released. There a few bugs fixed, some additions and a few backwards incompatible changes:

1. New and adjusted methods in ViewInterface.
2. Some methods became mutating instead of immutable since it is desired behavior considering sub-views and layout.
3. A simple view context class, ViewContext, was added.

Detailed changelog

Version 4.0.0 of View package is released. In this version:

• Added ViewInterface that View and WebView implement.
• Improved exception message on getting not exist block or parameter in View and WebView.
• We flush currently being rendered view files on context change now via View::withContext() or WebView::withContext().

Yii view package version 4.0.0 was tagged.

CsrfInjection now injects a stringable CSRF object with methods getToken(), getParameterName(), getHeaderName() and hiddenInput() instead of string token to common parameters.

Major versions of yiisoft/view and yiisoft/yii-view were tagged.

• View and WebView got fluent interface for their setters.
• View::withAddedCommonParameters() and WebView::withAddedCommonParameters() were revemod since view should be mutable in order for parameters to be cascaded into sub-views.
• Some metod and config option ranaming was performed in View and WebView. "Common parameters" became just "parameters".
• ContentParametersInjectionInterface was replaced with ContentParametersInjectionInterface. It injects parameters for both views and layout.

Version 2.1.0 of View package is released. Immutable methods View::withAddedCommonParameters() and WebView::withAddedCommonParameters() are now available to add extra parameters available in all views and their sub-views.

First stable version of Yii View Extension was released.

The package is an extension of the Yii View Rendering Library. It adds WEB-specific functionality and compatibility with PSR-7 interfaces.

Check readme for details.

First stable version of View Twig Renderer was released. The package is an extension of the Yii View Rendering Library. This extension provides a ViewRender that would allow you to use Twig view template engine.

Check package readme for details.

First version of View package is released. This library provides templates rendering abstraction supporting layout-view-subview hierarchy, custom renderers with PHP-based as default and more. It is used in Yii Framework 3 but is supposed to be usable separately.

PHP templates look like the following:

<?php