diff --git a/framework/base/Application.php b/framework/base/Application.php
index f64e352..40e8437 100644
--- a/framework/base/Application.php
+++ b/framework/base/Application.php
@@ -359,6 +359,15 @@ class Application extends Module
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Returns the view renderer.
+	 * @return ViewRenderer the view renderer used by this application.
+	 */
+	public function getViewRenderer()
+	{
+		return $this->getComponent('viewRenderer');
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Sets default path aliases.
 	 */
 	public function registerDefaultAliases()
diff --git a/framework/base/View.php b/framework/base/View.php
index dccfb26..cd6e070 100644
--- a/framework/base/View.php
+++ b/framework/base/View.php
@@ -153,6 +153,59 @@ class View extends Component
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Renders a view file.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $viewFile view file path
+	 * @param array $data data to be extracted and made available to the view
+	 * @param boolean $return whether the rendering result should be returned instead of being echoed
+	 * @return string the rendering result. Null if the rendering result is not required.
+	 * @throws CException if the view file does not exist
+	 */
+	public function renderFile($viewFile, $data = null, $return = false)
+	{
+		$widgetCount = count($this->_widgetStack);
+		if (($renderer = Yii::$application->getViewYii::app()->getViewRenderer()) !== null && $renderer->fileExtension === '.' . CFileHelper::getExtension($viewFile)) {
+			$content = $renderer->renderFile($this, $viewFile, $data, $return);
+		} else {
+			$content = $this->renderInternal($viewFile, $data, $return);
+		}
+		if (count($this->_widgetStack) === $widgetCount) {
+			return $content;
+		} else {
+			$widget = end($this->_widgetStack);
+			throw new CException(Yii::t('yii', '{controller} contains improperly nested widget tags in its view "{view}". A {widget} widget does not have an endWidget() call.',
+				array('{controller}' => get_class($this), '{view}' => $viewFile, '{widget}' => get_class($widget))));
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Renders a view file.
+	 * This method includes the view file as a PHP script
+	 * and captures the display result if required.
+	 * @param string $_viewFile_ view file
+	 * @param array $_data_ data to be extracted and made available to the view file
+	 * @param boolean $_return_ whether the rendering result should be returned as a string
+	 * @return string the rendering result. Null if the rendering result is not required.
+	 */
+	public function renderInternal($_viewFile_, $_data_ = null, $_return_ = false)
+	{
+		// we use special variable names here to avoid conflict when extracting data
+		if (is_array($_data_)) {
+			extract($_data_, EXTR_PREFIX_SAME, 'data');
+		} else {
+			$data = $_data_;
+		}
+		if ($_return_) {
+			ob_start();
+			ob_implicit_flush(false);
+			require($_viewFile_);
+			return ob_get_clean();
+		} else {
+			require($_viewFile_);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Creates a widget.
 	 * This method will use [[Yii::createObject()]] to create the widget.
 	 * @param string $class the widget class name or path alias
diff --git a/framework/base/ViewRenderer.php b/framework/base/ViewRenderer.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4044edf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/framework/base/ViewRenderer.php
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace yii\base;
+
+/**
+ * Created by JetBrains PhpStorm.
+ * User: qiang
+ * Date: 2/1/13
+ * Time: 12:43 PM
+ * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
+ */
+abstract class ViewRenderer extends Component
+{
+	/**
+	 * @var boolean whether to store the parsing results in the application's
+	 * runtime directory. Defaults to true. If false, the parsing results will
+	 * be saved as files under the same directory as the source view files and the
+	 * file names will be the source file names appended with letter 'c'.
+	 */
+	public $useRuntimePath = true;
+	/**
+	 * @var integer the chmod permission for temporary directories and files
+	 * generated during parsing. Defaults to 0755 (owner rwx, group rx and others rx).
+	 */
+	public $filePermission = 0755;
+	/**
+	 * @var string the extension name of the view file. Defaults to '.php'.
+	 */
+	public $fileExtension = '.php';
+
+	/**
+	 * Parses the source view file and saves the results as another file.
+	 * @param string $sourceFile the source view file path
+	 * @param string $viewFile the resulting view file path
+	 */
+	abstract protected function generateViewFile($sourceFile, $viewFile);
+
+	/**
+	 * Renders a view file.
+	 * This method is required by {@link IViewRenderer}.
+	 * @param CBaseController $context the controller or widget who is rendering the view file.
+	 * @param string $sourceFile the view file path
+	 * @param mixed $data the data to be passed to the view
+	 * @param boolean $return whether the rendering result should be returned
+	 * @return mixed the rendering result, or null if the rendering result is not needed.
+	 */
+	public function renderFile($context, $sourceFile, $data, $return)
+	{
+		if (!is_file($sourceFile) || ($file = realpath($sourceFile)) === false) {
+			throw new CException(Yii::t('yii', 'View file "{file}" does not exist.', array('{file}' => $sourceFile)));
+		}
+		$viewFile = $this->getViewFile($sourceFile);
+		if (@filemtime($sourceFile) > @filemtime($viewFile)) {
+			$this->generateViewFile($sourceFile, $viewFile);
+			@chmod($viewFile, $this->filePermission);
+		}
+		return $context->renderInternal($viewFile, $data, $return);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Generates the resulting view file path.
+	 * @param string $file source view file path
+	 * @return string resulting view file path
+	 */
+	protected function getViewFile($file)
+	{
+		if ($this->useRuntimePath) {
+			$crc = sprintf('%x', crc32(get_class($this) . Yii::getVersion() . dirname($file)));
+			$viewFile = Yii::app()->getRuntimePath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'views' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $crc . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename($file);
+			if (!is_file($viewFile)) {
+				@mkdir(dirname($viewFile), $this->filePermission, true);
+			}
+			return $viewFile;
+		} else {
+			return $file . 'c';
+		}
+	}
+}