How to render a template inside a “web/templates/folder/subfolder”

Easiest way, just make a new view that is module-spaced to the directory you want the files to be.

I do precisely that with a lot of my re-usable HTML components so I can easily embed them around.

What do you mean by module-spaced?
I was trying to use the new :path and :pattern options to allow wildcard template inclusion as well as customized template directory locations, but your suggestion seems to solve that without the need of these.
Thanks!

The ‘name’ of a View module defines the directory path it loads.

For example I have a helper view so I can embed other eex parts into larger areas:

defmodule MyServer.ComponentsView do
  # Stripped code that does not matter
  use MyServer.Web, :view
end

This defines a view that will load eex from my web/templates/components directory.

You can customize how it loads further by instead of 'use’ing your Web’s :view you can just use Phoenix.View, root: "web/templates", namespace: MyServer and change whatever you want. Or you can go even lower level and call the EEX generator to generate functions in your module. I just make new View’s with appropriate names.

Could you point to a repo online that uses this technique? I also had a similar issue, but I just share a single SharedView without much customization at this point. So I have multiple a.html.eex, b.html.eex, etc. templates with a single view.

See the pattern option to Phoenix.View, i.e. in your web.ex you can set:

use Phoenix.View, root: "web/templates", pattern: "**/*"

Which would then precompile all templates within the view’s folder as before, as well as all nested directories within the template folder.

I tried both approaches (OvermindDL1 & ChrisMcCord) and they both work.
Nevertheless, using “pattern” (see Chris answer) avoids having to create new views for the subfolders, and, as such, makes our “web/views” folder much cleaner and simple.
Thank you both.

I have made the change to the view part of web.ex as suggested by mccordchris.

I have a folder that I created under lib/web/templates/layout. The name of the folder is member. In it, I have a layout file that I called member.html.eex.

Then in my controller function, I wrote this

render conn, "faqs.html", layout: {Donations.Web.LayoutView, "member/member.html"}

I am having this error

Could not render "member/member.html" for Donations.Web.LayoutView, please define a matching clause for render/2 or define a template at "lib/donations/web/templates/web/layout". No templates were compiled for this module. Assigns:

Thanks for your help. I am using phoenix 1.3

Those do not match? ^.^

Also, note the glob pattern needs to be pattern: "**/*

Hey guys - thanks to both @chrismccord and @OvermindDL1 for the thorough overview here. I have a question about this pattern, though. Are there any drawbacks to using the root use Phoenix.View approach here in lieu of the use MyApp.Web , :view approach. Is there a way to do this with MyApp.Web or are these mutually exclusive?

Thanks in advance for any comments here.

Mike Zazaian