F3 hive ($f3) undefined inside view file - view

Question

Starting a new Fat Free Framework (F3) project and having a problem that the hive ($f3) global variable is not defined/available inside a view file. According to the docs, $f3 should be globally available. The trying to access $f3 inside a view file, I get an error. So, here's the code:
In index.php:
$f3->route('GET /','SomeController->index');
In SomeController.php:
class SiteController
{
public function index($f3)
{
$f3->set('title','Index');
View::instance()->render('indexView.php');
}
}
In indexView.php
echo $f3->get('title');
Output
Internal Server Error
Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object
I get get around this by explicitly passing $f3 to the view like so:
View::instance()->render('indexView.php', 'text/html', array('f3'=>$f3));
But, your not supposed to have to do this. According to the docs:
string render ( string $file [, string $mime = 'text/html' [, array $hive = NULL ]] )
Note:
If no data $hive is provided, the global F3 hive is used.

Answer 1

The hive content is extracted, HTML-encoded and passed to the view, but the whole $f3 instance is not.
So when running:
$f3->set('title','Index');
$f3->set('text','Hello');
View::instance()->render('indexView.php');
The following variables will be available from the view:
$title
$text
But $f3 will not.

Answer 2

Generally, you want to keep your view variables compartmentalized, but this depends on your opinions regarding MVC structure.
However, if you do need to access the $f3 HIVE inside a view you can do it by simply adding at the top of your view.
global $f3;
// now you can use the HIVE
echo $f3->get('myVar');