Using $page->render to render a specific template

[neonwired]

I read somewhere that you could use $page->render('emails/base.php') to render a page using a specific template. However it doesn't seem to be working, it's still trying to use _main.php. Not sure what the expected behavior of this is or if i'm doing it wrong,

[bernhard]

Likely _main.php is being appended automatically: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:processwire.com+appendtemplatefile

[wbmnfktr]

Either what @bernhard said or your path is wrong. The last is the main thing I'm struggling quite often with.

When I get my paths right it works as expected.

Even with things from repeater/repeater matrix items.

[neonwired]

I think the path is correct. It should be relative to site/templates, right?

It does look like the config appends it was $config->appendTemplateFile = '_main.php';

Not sure how you get around this.

[wbmnfktr]

It should. My example above will therefore look in /site/templates/_view/FILE.php - this works in about 99% of all cases. Sometimes... I don't know why it doesn't. In those rare cases I have to write render("./_view/..."). and need to add this ./ before the path.

[neonwired]

Found the answer to the config appending _main.php using the $useMain variable as suggested in this thread. Thanks for everyone's help.