Question: setting the layout on object level about plates HOT 1 CLOSED

Hey @happyDemon, thanks for stopping by. I'm happy to help answer your question.

Currently this is not possible with Plates. The biggest reason being that you don't want all your templates to implement the master layout. Plates encourages breaking templates into smaller, reusable pieces that together "build up" your pages. Many of these smaller templates don't implement the master layout. Consider things like sidebars, reusable blocks of content, emails, etc.

Generally defining a layout for each page works out well anyway, since you'll often want to pass data it, such as a page title:

<?php $this->layout('template', ['title' => 'User Profile']) ?>

Further, since Plates abstracts the filesystem away from the templates, you really shouldn't have to change the layout very often, if ever. For example, almost all my projects reference the layout at partials/template.

Hope that makes sense!

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