[TYPO3-mvc] If you want to render something with fluid directly

[Steffen Ritter]

Nils Blattner schrieb:
> I had to generate creation mails and thought, why not make them with 
> fluid templates.
> It took me some time to find how to do it, but eventually I was able to 
> track the bugger down and crop away the unneded stuff.
> 
> $this->registerMail holds the absolute path to the template.
> 
>     
>     /**
>      * Returns a view which will be sent via mail.
>      *
>      * @return Tx_Fluid_View_TemplateView Template view.
>      */
>     protected function getCreateMailView() {
>          $view = 
> $this->objectManager->getObject('Tx_Fluid_View_TemplateView');
>         $controllerContext = $this->buildControllerContext();
>         $view->setControllerContext($controllerContext);
> 
>         // Template Path Override
>         $view->setTemplatePathAndFilename($this->registerMail);
>        
>         if (method_exists($view, 'injectSettings')) {
>             $view->injectSettings($this->settings);
>         }
>         $view->initializeView(); // In FLOW3, solved through Object 
> Lifecycle methods, we need to call it explicitely
>         $view->assign('settings', $this->settings); // same with 
> settings injection.
>         return $view;
>     }
Have a look to the extbase Wiki,
there i postes a function which initializes fluid as from controller and 
renders template.
With the short "version" you'll run into issues of viewhelpers asking 
for requests and sth. like this.

regards

Steffen