Why we need a loop inside page.php template?

The loop is what gets and displays any posts – even just one:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

‘technically’ you only need to use the_post(); – this will get the next post object of the loop (or the only post object in a page.php template);
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_post

this might generate an error of there is not post (untested), therefore I would consider it a good habit always to use the full loop code.

Thank you all for your answers!

So i think its safe to have the_title() outside of loop. As it will always be a single post. I was concerned that there are situations where the page.php template will list more than one post, and that i wasnt aware of such case.

My current code looks like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="container breadcrumb">
    <div class="inner-container clearfix">
	    <span class="dot"></span>
        <h1 class="h2"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="container">
	<div class="inner-container clearfix">
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('clearfix'); ?> role="article">
            <section class="entry-content">
                <?php the_content(); ?>
            </section> <!-- end article section -->
        </article> <!-- end article -->
        <?php endwhile; ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

So i think its safe to have the_title() outside of loop.

no – although it might seem to work in most cases, this also might get random results.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_title

In such case, is there a safe way to have the title of the post outside of loop? Can you please make a suggestion here?

@mariusbratu –

You should be able to safely echo get_the_title(); outside of the loop,,