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 By default Flight will look for a `views` directory for template files. You can set an alternate path for your templates by setting the following config:

-    Flight::set('flight.views.path', '/path/to/views');
+    Flight::set('flight.views.path', '/path/to/views');
+
+## Layouts
+
+It is common for websites to have a single layout template file with interchanging content. To render content to be used in a layout, you can pass in an optional parameter to the `render` method.
+
+    Flight::render('header', array('heading' => 'Hello'), 'header_content');
+    Flight::render('body', array('message' => 'World'), 'body_content');
+
+Your view will then have saved variables called `header_content` and `body_content`. You can then render your layout by doing:
+
+    Flight::render('layout', array('title' => 'Home Page'));
+
+If the template files looks like this:
+
+header.php:
+
+    <h1><?php echo $heading; ?></h1>
+
+body.php:
+
+    <div><?php echo $body; ?></div>
+
+layout.php:
+
+    <html>
+    <head>
+    <title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+    <?php echo $header_content; ?>
+    <?php echo $body_content; ?>
+    </body>
+    </html>
+
+The output would be:
+
+    <html>
+    <head>
+    <title>Home Page</title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+    <h1>Hello</h1>
+    <div>World</div>
+    </body>
+    </html>
+
+## Custom Views
+
+Flight allows you to swap out the default view engine simply by registering your own view class.
+Here's how you would use the [Smarty](http://www.smarty.net/) template engine for your views:
+
+    // Load Smarty library
+    require './Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php';
+
+    // Register Smarty as the view class
+    // Also pass a callback function to configure Smarty on load
+    Flight::register('view', 'Smarty', array(), function($smarty){
+        $smarty->template_dir = './templates/';
+        $smarty->compile_dir = './templates_c/';
+        $smarty->config_dir = './config/';
+        $smarty->cache_dir = './cache/';
+    });
+
+    // Assign template data
+    Flight::view()->assign('name', 'Bob');
+
+    // Display the template
+    Flight::view()->display('hello.tpl');
+
+For completeness, you should also override Flight's default render method:
+
+    Flight::map('render', function($template, $data){
+        Flight::view()->assign($data);
+        Flight::view()->display($template);
+    });