Smarty

If the smarty plugins don't support UTF8 because php doesn't, then let's be consistent and offer official _mb_ functions that do the equivalent as PHP does.

I found this to be extremely useful, a m ...

class Smarty Implements ArrayAccess { ...

Thanks for the input. But Smarty2 did already support that you pass an array with varibale assignments with a single call to the assign method.

The cu ...

+1 for php templates, and for short tags.

I just discovered a trick I like for my own smarty subclass that may be good for smarty... in PHP5, use the builtin ArrayAccess class:

class Smarty Imp ...

The recommendation from the PHP group is NOT to run E_STRICT in production environments. So its not really a show-stopper.

The problem is, using a custom error handler, one *can't* disable the E_ ...

but on 2nd thought, this works fine:

This doesn't work when you provide your own error handler via set_error_handler()... the error handler is getting absolutely pounded with E_STRICT call ...

I know I can turn off debugging. The idea was to clean up the code so that it wouldn't be necessary. I had a report of someone trying to use my application with an unusual setup, where too many warn ...

I'm trying to hunt down uninitialized variables, (just being picky, I guess) and I get warnings from smarty when a template variable is not defined.

I tried using the example {assign var="foo" valu ...

It seems that the function was not in scope, so I switched to plugins instead.

(Note, this is inside a class that extends smarty)

Correction, it doesn't extend smarty, it simply contains a smarty instance.

I'm getting an error: "custom function 'url_for' is not implemented" with the following code and template: (Note, this is inside a class that extends smarty)

<?php
function dispatch($controller ...

indeed, that fixed it. I moved the logic about the subdirectory up a ways to the display() call, and everything is working better. Thanks!

So given the single template_dir = '/view/', templates 'foo/index' and 'bar/index' should each result in different compile files.

Ah... I think I'm setting up a different template_dir for each co ...

I am working on an MVC framework using Smarty templates, similar in style to Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org

I pass in some arguments to a dispatcher like this:

http://hostname/index.ph ...