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In this tutorial, we try to build template system for our module. Template is something that produce output to browser. We will exclude all output in mod_hello and put it to layout file.

First, change code mod_hello like following code:

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
require(dirname(__FILE__).DS.'helper.php');

$rows = modHelloHelper::getHello($params);
foreach($rows as $row)
{
   	modHelloHelper::renderHello($row, $params);
}
?>

What's that mean? We don't use echo again at this line code. Because, output will put at renderHello (in modHelloHelper class). Ok, now we go to helper.php. Change renderHello with following code:

	function renderHello(&$hello, &$params)
	{
		$link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_hello&id='.$hello->id.'&task=view');
		require(JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_hello' , '_hello'));
       }

We don't use return $link anymore because mod_hello.php doesn't have output. Now, we use layout. This layout at file named "_hello.php".

create folder named "tmpl" within joomla/modules/mod_hello. Then, create file name "_hello.php" within joomla/modules/mod_hello/tmpl. Enter following code:

<?php 
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access'); 
echo 'ID: <A href="'. $link .'">'.$hello->id.'</A> </br>';

 ?>

You have template at your module.