PhpRenderer not rendering my view script from console route - php

Question

I've created a Console route on my zf2 application to dispatch an email via the command line. So in my action I am creating a new PhpRenderer as specified in the documentation (http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.view.renderer.php-renderer.html) to render my email template (replace variables etc) and dispatch it.
Here is the code I am using:
$renderer = new \Zend\View\Renderer\PhpRenderer();
$resolver = new \Zend\View\Resolver\TemplateMapResolver();
$resolver->setMap(array(
'mailTemplate' => $config['template']
));
$renderer->setResolver($resolver);
$model = new \Zend\View\Model\ViewModel();
$model->setTemplate('mailTemplate');
$model->setVariables(array(
'recipient' => 'foo#bar.com'
));
$emailBody = $renderer->render($model);
However it seems that the Phprenderer does not render any PHP in my .phtml file. The exact same code works correctly however if I execute it in a normal HTTP Request.
Could anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

I suspect that it's because you haven't set the correct path to the resolver.
For reference, this is the approach I took:
// render HTML and TEXT bodies
$basePath = realpath(__DIR__ . '/../../../view/emails');
$htmlFilename = 'body.html.phtml';
$txtFilename = 'body.txt.phtml';
$renderer = new PhpRenderer();
$renderer->resolver()->addPath($basePath);
$sm = $this->getServiceManager();
$renderer->setHelperPluginManager($sm->get('ViewHelperManager'));
$model = new ViewModel();
$model->setVariable('name', $user->getName());
$model->setTemplate($txtFilename);
$textContent = $renderer->render($model);
$model->setTemplate($htmlFilename);
$htmlContent = $renderer->render($model);