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    <p>This is a simplified version of what's going on, but will hopefully be enough to get you going.</p> <h2>Special Objects</h2> <p>There are three types of Objects that Magento considers "special". These are Models, Blocks, and Helpers. Rather than use class names for these objects Magento uses URI-like strings called <em>class aliases</em> . So this</p> <pre><code>page/html </code></pre> <p>corresponds to the Block class</p> <pre><code>Mage_Page_Block_Html </code></pre> <p>Class here is referring to PHP classes, not CSS classes.</p> <h2>Magento Page Rendering</h2> <p>A Layout Object is responsible for creating all the HTML for a Magento page.</p> <p>A Layout Object is a collection of nested Block Objects.</p> <p>Most Block Objects are Template Blocks, that is, the Block class inherits from the base Magento template block <code>Mage_Core_Block_Template</code>. Template Blocks are objects responsible for rendering a phtml template file.</p> <p>So, when you specify a "type" in the XML Layout files, you're telling Magento.</p> <blockquote> <p>I want to add a block object with the class foo/bar, using the template baz.phtml</p> </blockquote> <p>In code, that's </p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- "name" and "as" are used to identify the block in the layout, so that PHP code can get a reference to the object. --&gt; &lt;block type="foo/bar" name="myname" as="myname" template="path/to/baz.phtml" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>If all you want to do is render a template file, you can use</p> <pre><code>type="core/template" </code></pre> <p>However, by using a different value, like</p> <pre><code>type="page/html" </code></pre> <p>your phtml template file gets access to all the methods in</p> <pre><code>Mage_Page_Block_Html </code></pre> <p>Which means you could do something like</p> <pre><code>File: template.phtml &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getBaseUrl();?&gt;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>The <code>core/template</code> class doesn't have a <code>getBaseUrl</code> method, but the <code>page/html</code> class does. </p> <p>If you're doing custom module development (as opposed to just theming), I usually create a Block Object in my own module that extends one of the base Magento blocks. This allows me to add my own methods to the block as I see fit. If you're only theming, <code>page/html</code> is a decent default. </p>
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    1. COThanks for going into such detail! - do you have any recommendations where is best to read up on that kind of stuff?
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    2. COBased on what you said there, would it not be better to use core/template by default and move to page/html when you need to use methods like the one in your example?
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    3. CO99% of the time you'll be creating HTML with your blocks, so having access to the methods never hurts, but it's a style/preference/judgment thing. Nothing wrong with defaulting to core/template.
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