Question

I actually have 2 questions here:

1. I am using a lightbox plugin that when clicked loads up an iFrame of a page, how to I get it to point to a file in the view folder?
2. Second question will that allow the contents of the iFrame to be translated using the __() method?

Answer 1

You can’t just point it to a view file, you want to create a route to a controller/action that will eventually show that view; just like you would create any other page in Kohana. And in that case, yes, you will be able to use __() to translate its contents.

Example; in the routes file:

Route::set('default', 'iframe(/<action>)')
->defaults(array(
    'controller' => 'iframe',
    'action'     => 'index',
));

Then you can create a controller iframe.php and add the action index or whatever other (static, I assume) pages you want to use in an iframe. e.g.:

class Controller_Iframe extends Controller
{
    public function action_index()
    {
        $this->request->response = View::factory('iframes/index');
    }
}

and then create iframes/index.php in your views folder, and voila. You can access it with the url mysite/iframe/

🙂