What's the difference between those ones?

[Gosforth]

I see we can render template in one of following ways:

echo \Template::instance()->render('templates/welcome.htm');

echo \View::instance()->render('templates/welcome.htm');

Looks like results are same. What's the difference?

[ved]

Hi, that is all pretty decently explained in the docs. Anyway, the differences are:

echo \Template::instance()->render('templates/welcome.htm');

With the Template class you can use the xml based template directives like <check>, <repeat>, etc. Also allows you to use {{ @myvariable }}.

Read more about F3's templating and the Template class API reference.

 

echo \View::instance()->render('templates/welcome.htm');

With the View class, your views are basically php files. You can't use F3's templating tags and basically have to place everything inside <?php ?> blocks. Read more here.

Cheers

[Gosforth]

Thanks