Render a native PHP view

Steps

Choose the template in controller code and pass presentation arrays. Keep business rules, database reads, and provider calls outside the view.

// Native template excerpt: $items and $e are supplied by the renderer.
<?php foreach ($items as $item): ?>
    <a href="/reading/<?= $e(rawurlencode($item['slug'])) ?>">
        <?= $e($item['title']) ?>
    </a>
<?php endforeach; ?>

The framework keeps PHP as its template language. Do not let a query parameter choose an include path. View rendering and code-example display are different: documentation code is escaped text, never evaluated.

Verify

Pass a title containing HTML and verify inert escaped output. Read Views and list template source.

Editorial provenance

Source: resources/guides/php-view.md. Source SHA-256: 082f2b84287fbbdb0e5b31ec51a43e61786f7f20977718f5415689999fcddca2.

Knowledge-base application source; editorial checkpoint 2026-10-20. See candidate status and adoption boundary.