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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Manages passing variables to templates and rendering them
+ */
+class View{
+
+    /**
+     * Full path to template file
+     * @var string 
+     * @access private  
+     */
+	private $path;
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the view.
+     * @var string
+     * @access public  
+     */
+	public $name;
+
+    /**
+     * Stores all the variables passed to the view
+     * @var array   
+     * @access private 
+     */
+	private $_data = array();
+
+    /**
+     * Manages storing the data passed to the view as properties
+     * 
+     * @param string $key Property name
+     * @param string $val Property value
+     * @return void    
+     * @access public  
+     */
+	public function __set($key, $val) {
+		$this->_data[$key]=$val;
+	}
+
+    /**
+     * Manages accessing passed data as properties
+     * 
+     * @param string   $key Property name
+     * @return mixed	Property value
+     * @access public    
+     * @throws Exception If the property is not found
+     */
+	public function __get($key){
+		if (isset($this->_data[$key]))
+			return $this->_data[$key];
+		throw new Exception("Value {$key} not set for view {$name}"); 
+	}
+
+    /**
+     * Renders the template, all dynamically set properties
+	 * will be available inside the view file as variables.
+	 * Example:
+	 * <code>
+	 * $view = View::get('frontpage');
+	 * $view->title = "Page title";
+	 * echo $view->render();
+	 * </code>
+     *
+     * @return string Rendered template
+     * @access public  
+     */
+	public function render() {
+		extract($this->_data);
+		ob_start();
+		include($this->path);
+		$out = ob_get_contents();
+		ob_end_clean();
+		return $out;
+	}
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs the view
+     * 
+     * @param string   $name The name of the template to use
+     * @return View    
+     * @access public    
+     * @throws Exception If specified template is not found
+     * @static 
+     */
+	public static function get($name){
+		$view = new View();
+		$view->name = $name;
+		$file = Misc::find_file('view', $name);
+		if ($file == false)
+			throw new Exception("View {$name} not found.");
+		$view->path=$file;
+		return $view;
+	}
+}
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