Controllers for .antlers-Files

[nadlig123]

I could not quite figure out how to use controllers & the advantages of .antlers-files. How can I pass the data from my collections and data i fetched from an external api-call within the controller both at once to a antlers-view.

So far I tried:

• Setting up the route in web.php as follows Route::get('home', [HomeController::class, 'home']);
• Having a antlers-view home.antlers.php with some content
• and a controller HomeController with following functionality:
  public function home() {
  $data = external Api-Call
  $entry = \Statamic\Facades\Entry::find("home");
  return view('pages/home', $entry ,$data);
  }

But now my view does not include my specified-layout and all in all it seems quite messy. Is there a better way of not having to use individual routing but passing the fetched data from the controller to my antlers-view.

[jasonvarga]

When using the standard view() helper, you only get the view you asked for, and don't get the template-into-layout behavior other Statamic pages provide.

You should instead use our View class.

use Statamic\View\View;

return View::make('pages/home', $data)->layout('layout');

If you don't want to use a controller, you could consider a view model. https://statamic.dev/view-models

In your home.md entry, for example, you could add:

view_model: 'App\ViewModels\HomeViewModel'

and then create the view model php file in app/ViewModels/HomeViewModel.php

<?php
 
namespace App\ViewModels;
 
use Statamic\View\ViewModel;
 
class HomeViewModel extends ViewModel
{
    public function data(): array
    { 
        return $this->makeApiCall();
    }
}

[nadlig123]

Thanks. I will try and give a update :D

[hansipete]

Where would that ArticleStats php file live? app/???/ArticleStats.php

[jasonvarga]

Sorry that was a copy/paste mistake. I've updated my comment to rename the class and show the location of the file.

[hansipete]

Thank you!