Calling Another Module From A View

With Trongate, you can easily load another module from within an ordinary view file.  This can be achieved with just one line of code:

<?= Modules::run('second_modules/some_method') ?>

Why Would You Want To Do This?

There are a variety of situations where this type of functionality can be extremely useful.  For example, let's assume you'd like to add a 'Stripe' payment button onto the page.  When users click the 'Buy Now' button, they may see a pop-up appear on their screen, inviting the user to add payment details.  The inner workings of such a feature are almost certainly complicated enough to warrant having a separate 'stripe' module.

an example of a pop-up payment modal

It's easy to imagine the benefits of having a separate 'stripe' module that's dedicated to handing everything to do with Stripe payments - including 'drawing' the pop-up payment modal.

If such a feature were in place then it could be called from any view file with just one line of code.  For example:

calling a module from within a view file

Adding Arguments

When you call modules from view files, arguments can be easily passed into the methods via comma seperation.  Here's an example of a variable called $name being passed as an argument:

<?= Modules::run('modules::welcome/greeting', $name) ?>

<?php
echo Modules::run('welcome/greeting', $name);
?>