mikeroosa Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I just installed ProcessWire for the first time and I've perused the documentation but haven't seen an explanation of the template files that start with an _. Can someone explain to me how those work? Also, how come they have an opening php tag but no closing tag? Is there anything that explains this in depth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hi mikeroosa and welcome to PW. Both of those are optional. The leading underscore is simply a convention so you know those files are not actual template files, but rather php includes (files that get included into other files). This is also common outside of PW. The omission of the closing tag has several benefits. A quick google will help to explain why: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=php+omit+closing+tag 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeroosa Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 Thank you Adrian. That clears things up. I'm not really a php programmer but want to learn it well enough to set up a template. I'm a .net dev and the idea of omitting a closing tag seemed odd to me. How does ProcessWire know to include the _ files. Is it defined somewhere in the admin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Gretsky Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) They are either included in template files with the php include statement or autoincluded in site config file. You can read this wonderful tutorial to get all the nuts and bolts quick. They also can be included in the admin in the FIles tab of the template edit page. Edited September 25, 2014 by Ivan Gretsky 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woop Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 We recently had a lengthy discussion regarding issues like this. Ryan has provided an alternative profile/theme that makes it much easier to get things running. This might be included in future versions of PW, by default. See: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7565-making-pw-more-userfriendly/?p=74425 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benbyf Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I would like to see some examples of people using the _ files for non direct theming, as I've not really done it that way yet. I also find it really annoying that those files are set be default in the config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 do you know this thread? https://processwire.com/talk/topic/740-a-different-way-of-using-templates-delegate-approach/ a lot to read i really like the structure with _func.php, _init.php and _main.php - very clear, very flexible. i'm doing it like this most of the time: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/740-a-different-way-of-using-templates-delegate-approach/?p=75853 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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