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PHP Building Websites with PHP Slim Basics & Twig Templates Routing For Our Project

Posted by jamd
jamd
3,849 Points

how does the templates folder work?

I was wondering how the routing works in regards to the templates folder, how does it route to it when it's not defined anywhere? what if we named that same folder "webfiles" instead of "templates", where is it defined to go look in that folder?

2 Answers

Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points
Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points

Are you talking about Wordpress? If so, Wordpress has such a complex core that things work like magic. It's meant to make it easier on development. If you change the name, you will break it and Wordpress won't know where to find the templates.

Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

Slim and Twig interact through OOP to look for that specific folder. If you drill down into the vendor folder for Twig and Slim you might get lucky and find the file that actually provides the routing. You can also look at the GitHub repositories for the projects and maybe have better luck finding the code.