--- title: "Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->" description: "We are continuing to review Joomla 2.5's Beez2 template code, and we next come accross the following code: <html xmlns=\"https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"<?php echo $this->language;..." url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this/ date: 2012-07-19 modified: 2021-08-16 author: "Brad Markle" categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"] tags: ["Joomla v2.5"] type: post lang: en --- # Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this-> We are continuing to review Joomla 2.5's Beez2 template code, and we next come accross the following code: In our review thus far, we have alread seen instances of **$this->**, for example: - [$showRightColumn](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/showrightcolumn/) - [$this->countModules](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-countmodules/) - [$this->params->get](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-params-get/) ## What is $this-> ? Technically speaking, in PHP $this refers to the current object. PHP will set the contents of $this when you are inside a function of an object. If we update our template's code as follows, we can see more information about $this: **"; print_r($this); echo ""; die(); ?>** The output above is quite long, and below we've included the first few lines only: JDocumentHTML Object ( [_links] => Array ( => Array ( => alternate => rel => Array ( => application/rss+xml => RSS 2.0 ) Based upon the first line, $this appears to be referring to the **JDocumentHTML Object**, which we touched based on in a [previous article](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/jfactory-get-document/). ## When is $this-> used in the Beez2 template? When scanning the index.php file of the Beez2 template, there are several uses of **$this**: - [$this->countModules()](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-countmodules/) - [$this->params->get()](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-params-get/) - [$this->baseurl](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-baseurl/) - [$this->template](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-template/) - [$this->language](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-language/) - [$this->direction](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-direction/)