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The last use of $this in the Joomla 2.5 Beez2 template<\/a> that will review is $this->direction<\/strong>. We can see it being used in the following section of code in the template’s PHP file:<\/p>\n

<html xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"<?php echo $this->language; ?>\" lang=\"<?php echo $this->language; ?>\" dir=\"<?php echo $this->direction<\/span>; ?>\" ><\/pre>\n
When we look at the result of the following code in our Joomla 2.5 site’s HTML, it looks like the following:<\/p>\n
<html xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"es-es\" lang=\"es-es\" dir=\"ltr<\/span>\" ><\/pre>\n
As you can see, $this->direction specifies the direction of text in the template. In our example, the value is ltr<\/strong>, left to right<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last use of $this in the Joomla 2.5 Beez2 template that will review is $this->direction. 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