nested inheritance about plates HOT 2 CLOSED

You cannot define "sub layouts". In fact, if you set a layout using the $this->layout() method in a nested template it will actually overwrite the layout defined by it's parent.

Here is how I would tackle what your trying to do. In this situation aaa is your template, index is the layout, and bbb is the nested template.

<!-- index -->
<?=$this->content?>
<?=$this->subcontent?>

<!-- AAA -->
<?php $this->layout('index') ?>

<?php $this->start('content') ?>
    <h1>CONTENT</h1>
<?php $this->end() ?>

<?php $this->start('subcontent') ?>
    <?php $this->insert('bbb') ?>
<?php $this->end() ?>

<!-- BBB -->
<h2>SUBCONTENT</h2>

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@mindyk, you may be interested to know that layout stacking (or sub layouts) are now possible in dev-master, coming soon to Plates version 2.0. See issue #10 for more details.

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