#203 - added the views section to the README file

README.md

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+Views
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+
+Views in Alpha are made up of two parts: _view classes_ that are responsible for marshalling active records to views, and _view templates_ that are responsible for defining the actual view content.
+
+### View classes
+
+A view class should extend the _Alpha\View\View_ class, that defines standard set of methods that are available to a view (createView(), editView(), listView() etc.).  You can then override these methods in case you need to do something specific in your view.  Typically, there is a one-to-one mapping between a view and the corresponding active record that it is rendering, and the view is responsible for marshalling the record data to an underlying template.
+
+Here is an example where we are injecting in a count of the items in a given shopping cart, to be used later on in the template to display cart details:
+
+	<?php
+
+	use Alpha\View\View;
+	use My\App\Model\Cart;
+	use My\App\Model\Item;
+	// ...
+
+	class CartView extends View
+	{
+	    // ...
+
+	    public function detailedView($fields = array())
+	    {
+	        // this->BO will be set to our cart at this stage during factory instantiation
+	        $items = $this->BO->getItems();
+
+	        $fields['itemCount'] = count($items);
+
+	        // ...
+
+	        $html = $this->loadTemplate($this->BO, 'detail', $fields);
+
+	        return $html;
+	    }
+	}
+
+### View templates
+
+TODO
+
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