Rendering View from extended Base class in another module

Are you setting up a view component in your Module.php file?

    /**
     * Register specific services for the module
     */
    public function registerServices($di){

        //Registering a dispatcher
        $di->set('dispatcher', function() use (&$di) {
            # ... code here
            return $dispatcher;
        });

        //Setting up the view component
        $di->set('view', function() {

            $view = new View();

            $view->setViewsDir(MODULE_DIR . "admin" . DS . "views" . DS);

            $view->registerEngines([
                '.volt' => function($view, $di) {

                    $volt = new VoltEngine($view, $di);

                    $volt->setOptions([
                        'compiledPath' => APP_DIR.'cache'.DS,
                        'compiledSeparator' => '_'
                    ]);

                    return $volt;
                },
                '.phtml' => 'Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Php'
            ]);

            return $view; 
        }, true);
    }

See also: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/applications.html#multi-module

Thanks for the reply Andy!

Yes I am doing that. However at the moment that is restricting me to use the views that are ONLY within that module. If I have an admin controller that extends out of the Base module I would like to access the Base view if the admin view doesnt exist.

Are you setting up a view component in your Module.php file?

   /**
    * Register specific services for the module
    */
   public function registerServices($di){

       //Registering a dispatcher
       $di->set('dispatcher', function() use (&$di) {
           # ... code here
           return $dispatcher;
       });

       //Setting up the view component
       $di->set('view', function() {

           $view = new View();

           $view->setViewsDir(MODULE_DIR . "admin" . DS . "views" . DS);

           $view->registerEngines([
               '.volt' => function($view, $di) {

                   $volt = new VoltEngine($view, $di);

                   $volt->setOptions([
                       'compiledPath' => APP_DIR.'cache'.DS,
                       'compiledSeparator' => '_'
                   ]);

                   return $volt;
               },
               '.phtml' => 'Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Php'
           ]);

           return $view; 
       }, true);
   }

See also: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/applications.html#multi-module

Oh right well I don't have code to do that but I have encountered a similar situation where I needed the view from a different module; so I have a method in some base controller which looks like this:

        /**
         * Use admin_view() to force the admin layout and templates.
         */
        protected function admin_view() {
            $this->view->setViewsDir(MODULE_DIR . "other_module" . DS . "views" . DS);
            $this->view->setTemplateAfter('admin');
        }

Where I switch the location of my view directory using a $this->admin_view() within a controller. Maybe you could set up a component that manages such a system in which it falls back on to a 'base' location for a view.

All in all though you seem to be looking to acheive multiple shared views, see https://forum.phalcon.io/discussion/478/multi-module-shared-views-dual-location- for a few examples on how to acheive this with the directory structure and / or the declaration of views.

Just to follow up on this again I have managed to achieve somewhat the initial idea of what I was after:

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/issues/10513#issuecomment-113649171

Thanks for the input!