Weird View Composer issue on Sage10

Hi!!

I’m having a weird issue with view composers on Sage10. I have a blade view template that is located here:

resources/views/woocommerce/category-products.blade.php

with this content (to simplify things a bit I’ve exposed the title only)

<section class="category-products">
  <h2 class="product-category__title">{{ $title }}</h2>
</section>

What I’m trying to do is to loop through Woocommerce categories and show some info and some products from each category. I’m calling that blade template as this from another blade:

    @foreach ($product_categories as $category)
      @include('woocommerce.category-products', ['category_id' => $category['id']])
    @endforeach

The problem is that I’ve created a composer view named CategoryProducts here:

app/View/Composers/CategoryProducts.php

That has this content:

<?php

namespace App\View\Composers;

use Roots\Acorn\View\Composer;

class CategoryProducts extends Composer
{
  /**
   * List of views served by this composer.
   *
   * @var array
   */
  protected static $views = [
      'woocommerce.category-products',
  ];

  /**
   * Data to be passed to view before rendering.
   *
   * @return array
   */
  public function with()
  {
      return [
          'title' => $this->title(),
      ];
  }

  /**
   * Return the category title
   *
   * @return array
   */
  public function title(){
      $category_id = $this->data->get('category_id');
      if ( $category_id == null ) {
          return [];
      }

      $category = get_term_by('id', $category_id, 'product_cat');
      return $category ? $category->name : '';
  }
}

Ok, so, the problem is that if the name of the Composer View is CategoryProducts, the Composer is not fired and no info is passed to the view, but if I change it to something like Test then it works :sweat_smile:

I mean, the previous code doesn’t work (the $title var is not populated so I get the error that $title doesn’t exist), but this does work:

app/View/Composers/Test.php

That has this content:

<?php

namespace App\View\Composers;

use Roots\Acorn\View\Composer;

class Test extends Composer
{
  /**
   * List of views served by this composer.
   *
   * @var array
   */
  protected static $views = [
      'woocommerce.category-products',
  ];

  /**
   * Data to be passed to view before rendering.
   *
   * @return array
   */
  public function with()
  {
      return [
          'title' => $this->title(),
      ];
  }

  /**
   * Return the category title
   *
   * @return array
   */
  public function title(){
      $category_id = $this->data->get('category_id');
      if ( $category_id == null ) {
          return [];
      }

      $category = get_term_by('id', $category_id, 'product_cat');
      return $category ? $category->name : '';
  }
}

These are my composer.json required packages:

  "require": {
    "php": "^7.3|^8.0",
    "generoi/sage-woocommerce": "dev-master",
    "log1x/acf-composer": "^1.5",
    "log1x/sage-directives": "^1.1",
    "log1x/sage-html-forms": "^1.0",
    "log1x/sage-svg": "^1.0",
    "roots/acorn": "dev-main"
  },

Anyone has some hints to guide me up to solve the problem. I know the solution is to name it with a different name but I want to be sure why is this happening.

Thank you!!

Sage 10 attempts to automatically associate Composers with views–i.e. the Composer PageTemplate would be automatically associated with resources/views/page-template.blade.php. In this case, it’s probably trying to match your composer to a taxonomy template (which probably doesn’t exist) that would be resources/views/category-products.blade.php.

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Ok Ben, so renaming the Composer file (and class) will do the trick then. Now

I’ll be careful and try to avoid names based on Template Hierarchy https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

Thank you very much!!!

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