<p>If you want to render a template in Craft 3 you can do</p>

<pre><code>$html = Craft::$app-&gt;getView()-&gt;renderTemplate('path/to/template', $variables);
</code></pre>

<p>If you want to return/render a template within your Controller action you can do</p>

<pre><code>return $this-&gt;renderTemplate('path/to/template', $variables);
</code></pre>

<p>If you want to render a plugin template you'll need to attach your plugins handle to your path</p>

<pre><code> 'plugin-handle/path/to/template'
</code></pre>

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2018-06-16T17:34:27.587Z
Robin Schambach
<p>Coming to Craft after years with EE, I feel like a newbie again.</p>

<p>I painfully managed to built and install a basic plugin for craft3 with composer, (with a little help from the docs and <a href="https://nystudio107.com/blog/so-you-wanna-make-a-craft-3-plugin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NYstudio107's tutorial</a>).</p>

<p>For now, the plugin does nothing, and to keep going, I would need to understand how to translate a pattern commonly used in EE.
Get some data from a template, process it and return it.</p>

<p>Get tag data and parameters</p>

<pre><code>$data_to_process = ee()-&gt;TMPL-&gt;tagdata;
$process_param = ee()-&gt;TMPL-&gt;fetch_param('parameter');
</code></pre>

<p>Output content to template</p>

<pre><code>ee()-&gt;return_data = $processed_data;
</code></pre>

<p>Ho do you do such things in craft ?</p>

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Plugin development : from ExpressionEngine to Craft
# Plugin development : from ExpressionEngine to Craft

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-06-16)

Coming to Craft after years with EE, I feel like a newbie again.
I painfully managed to built and install a basic plugin for craft3 with composer, (with a little help from the docs and NYstudio107's tutorial).
For now, the plugin does nothing, and to keep going, I would need to understand how to translate a pattern commonly used in EE.
Get some data from a template, process it and return it.
Get tag data and parameters
$data_to_process = ee()->TMPL->tagdata;
$process_param = ee()->TMPL->fetch_param('parameter');

Output content to template
ee()->return_data = $processed_data;

Ho do you do such things in craft ?

**Tags:** plugin-development, craft3

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-06-16. Score: 1

If you want to render a template in Craft 3 you can do
$html = Craft::$app->getView()->renderTemplate('path/to/template', $variables);

If you want to return/render a template within your Controller action you can do
return $this->renderTemplate('path/to/template', $variables);

If you want to render a plugin template you'll need to attach your plugins handle to your path
 'plugin-handle/path/to/template'


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