Smarty

I use smarty on a daily basis and love it, its easy to use, powerful, plays nicely with my IDE and is well established.

However, trying to convince anyone to use or switch to Smarty is impossible w ...

I didn't get that?? Are you saying you agree with me?

I thought it was a perfectly valid question?

Surely there's an efficiency gain (stack/heap processing) in only passing the reference to smar ...

I read the documentation before posting and if you note I did say "just curious".

I was asking if byref was more efficient?

noob question,

Just curious, but is assignByRef more efficient than assign?

Does smarty access the byref variables directly as opposed to taking a copy of them when you use assign?

Thank you, that example really helps.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why%20MVC%20is%20bad%20for%20web

"MVC" is an overloaded acronym. As a classic pattern, MVC is only applicable when you control all three instances in same code. For w ...

If it helps, here is the markup:

{if $notice->type==$notice::NEWLISTING}
<h3>NEW LISTING</h3>
{elseif $notice->type==$notice::REGISTRATION& ...

I'm using v 3.1.27, I'll update when I get the chance.

If it helps, here is the markup:

{if $notice->type==$notice::NEWLISTING}
<h3>NEW LISTING</h3>
{ ...

Constants ARE static, per definition.

It would be overkill to separate these into individual templates, so instead they are all in one with the class constant used to determine which message block ...

Have you tried something like

{CLASS::CONSTANT}

Thank you that worked! I don't understand it though. I thought only static members are accessed by class?

To me, it sounds like you are trying to place business logic into template.
Are you absolutely sure you can't express this structure in any other way?

Perhaps, I don't claim to be a MVC expert, bu ...

OK, so I found a workaround for now, but I don't understand it.

In the template I have a series of if..elseif statements. If I replace the elseif with individual if's the code works fine??

Newb here, can someone tell me how I should be accessing class constants?

I have a notification class which can be in any of 20+ states, the current state is determined using constants (so I have 2 ...