I've already installed composer and verified that it's running properly
this in my controller:
//index.php
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use League\Plates\Engine;
$templates = new Engine('/templates');
// Render a template
echo $templates->render('layout', [
'title' => 'Hello World',
'name' => 'Jonathan'
]);
this is my layout:
//layout.php
<?php $this->layout('template', ['title' => $title ]) ?>
<p>Hello, <?= $name ?></p>
<?
this is my template:
//template.php
<html>
<head>
<title><?= $title ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?= $this->section('content') ?>
</body>
</html>
this the error that i get:
GET /templates/template.php - Uncaught Error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/finsoft2/Documenti/Playground/plates test/templates/template.php:6 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/finsoft2/Documenti/Playground/plates test/templates/template.php on line 6
The code you've provided is largely OK, apart from two small issues:
Engineis an absolute path. The safest option is to use the__DIR__predefined constant to reference the path. This would result in:$templates = new Engine(__DIR__.'/templates');But the reason you're seeing the current error message lies somewhere else: you're performing a GET request to /templates/template.php. You should be performing a request to index.php. When accessing the template file directly, the template engine doesn't exist and the interpreter doesn't know how to fill the variables.