Re: Difference between Blocks and templates

Thanks for the information.

Is there a good example where using a block is more sensible as compared to template?

On Friday, 14 December 2012 07:48:29 UTC+8, Reuben wrote:

In CakePHP 2.1, Blocks are a part of the core, and are used to display content, scripts and css as a part of the layout.

You can start a block by simply writing to it, using any of the available block commands (i.e. $this->start(), $this->assign(), $this->prepend(), $this->append()), although your mileage may vary if you start appending to a block that hasn't been created.

Your example is using trying to use nested elements, rather than blocks.

The strength of blocks is that you can write to them from helpers, layouts, views and elements, and then choose to display the block at a later time the view or layout processing.  

Several helpers could write to a block that is displayed by an element, and element would not need to know about those helpers.  Without blocks, the element would need to know about those helpers to display the content.

Regards

Reuben Helms

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