title: Zend Framework 2 display a view within a view
body: <p>I have two modules Admin and Login.</p>
  
  <p>I want to display the Login view 'login.phtml' within the admin view 'index.html'</p>
  
  <p>I have the following in the Admin modules indexAction controller</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function indexAction()
  {    
      $login = new LoginController();
  
      $view = new ViewModel(array(
          'theloginform' =&gt; $login-&gt;loginAction(),
      ));
  
      return $view;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the LoginAction method in the Login controller I return the ViewModel for the 'login.phtml' file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function LoginAction() {
         $view = new ViewModel();
         return $view;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The indexAction throws an error as the variable 'theloginform' is an object.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Catchable fatal error: Object of class Zend\View\Model\ViewModel could not be converted to string in...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If i add the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$authentication-&gt;loginAction()-&gt;captureTo('test')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The 'index.phtml' shows a string "content".</p>
  
  <p>I have read that i may need to render the ViewModel before i assign it to the view variable 'theloginform', but i can't seem to get it to work, i have tried the following with no luck.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function LoginAction() {
  
      $view = new ViewModel();
  
      $renderer = new PhpRenderer();
      $resolver = new Resolver\AggregateResolver();
      $map = new Resolver\TemplateMapResolver(array(
              'login'      =&gt; __DIR__ . '/../view/login.phtml'
  
      ));
      $resolver-&gt;attach($map);
      $view-&gt;setTemplate("login");
      return $renderer-&gt;render($view);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Zend\View\Renderer\PhpRenderer::render: Unable to render template "login"; resolver could not resolve to a file
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have even tried adding the DI into the autoload_classmap.php file but still get the same error, i have double checked the login.phtml file is at the correct path:</p>
  
  <p>'/Login/view/login/login/login.phtml' I even copied it to '/Login/src/Login/view/login.phtml'</p>
  
  <p>Very confused have read then re-read the Zend documentation, i just want to pass a view to another view...</p>