Documentation lists $theme->render() for rendering - parameter missing

[judgej]

That statement as it appears in the documentation, results in an error. A parameter is required for this method.

The documentation also states $theme = IoC::resolve('Theme'); can be used in a controller. In this context, what is "Theme"? What does "Theme" do differently than "Foo" as that parameter.

Just as a side-note, I'm new to Laravel, and am finding the documentation all over the place does this - it says that you can call $Foo->Bar($Thing) and then usually fails to say what any of those things are or do or need to be.

[raftalks]

In the documentation, I have said instead of using View::make() method to prepare the views, we use the $theme->render() where parameters goes similar to View::make() method. I will put additional details in the docs to avoid the confusion.

For example if we use View::make('path/to/view',array('data'=>'something')); in order to use the theme to generate the view, we use have to use $theme->render(path/to/view',array('data'=>'something'));

To your next question about using Theme instance inside the controller, I have mentioned in the docs to use the Laravel IoC to resolve the instance of the $theme with its state in place. $theme = IoC::resolve('Theme'); will return the instance of the Theme class as an object to be used in the controller or any other place.

Hope this info helps.