API	Package	Subpackage	Class	Method	Reference	Last reviewed	Doc status
Home	Joomla.Framework	Application	JApplication	getTemplate	getTemplate()	Never	Work in Progress

Gets the name of the current template. The value returned by the JApplication class itself is ‘_system’. The $mainframe object is actually an instance of the JSite class, which extends JApplication and overrides this method to return a string containing the name of the current template.

string getTemplate ()

global $mainframe;

echo $mainframe->getTemplate();

might produce

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