Common output strategies

Template files receive content and how they deliver it to the user is what we call the output strategy. There are a few different options and this section covers each in detail.

• Direct output

  You already know direct output because it simply means printing output directly, as you might do in any other PHP script.

• Delayed output

  Delayed output focuses on rendering the content/markup for all the various regions of our final document ahead of time, but delaying that output until everything is ready.

• Markup regions

  Markup regions give you the best of both worlds—the simplicity of direct output with the power of delayed output, just using HTML.