Template Partials

What Are Partials?

Some developers like to break their page templates up into partials (sometimes referred to as 'components').  A partial is a section of code that is usually associated with a particular section or function, within a greater page template.  Examples of partials could be:

• a header
  
• a footer
• a login area
• a top navigation bar
  

So, you wanna use partials huh?

Using partials is as simple as saving a view file inside your partials folder and using Trongate's in-built 'Partial' method to load your partial.  For example,

​<?= Template::partial('partials/footer') ?>​

As you would expect, partials can receive, display and manipulate data that has been passed in from your calling module.  This can be easily achieved by passing in a $data array as an argument.  For example,

​​<?= Template::partial('partials/footer', $data) ?>​

Below is an example of a template that does not use any partials:

no partials to be found here

Here's the same template but with the footer now being called as a partial:

this template will attempt to load a partial called footer.php