5.1 The Fluid Templating Engine

The templating engine “Fluid” implements the view in a MVC-based system

The templating engine “Fluid” acts as an interface between the controller and the model

The FluidController class can bypass the controller and read the content from the database directly if required

Data (for example objects retrieved from a repository) should be passed from the controller to the view

All partials should be stored in one central file

The purpose of a partial is to contain a small piece of recurring code

A partial can only be included in template files, but not in layout files

A variable var can be passed to a partial by using arguments="{var: var}"

Partials only support the HTML format

Partials can be nested recursively