Smarty

Sorry for the cross post to another forum, but [url=http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165922]this thread in an interesting examination of MVC with an underlying question of is MVC becom ...

Perhaps the issue is in how I think about the loading of the template vars. I typically have "View" classes that:
a) are created via a factory method of a "ShowViewAction" class
b) have a Smarty ob ...

Well, this is how I might think about the whole interaction from a MVC view point.

>>>start of transaction 1
To start, the browser sends and HTTP request.

This is picked up by the Cont ...

The question is as follows: I have a custom ActionForm object en I use the "validate" method. But when I submit some values, and "validate" returns FALSE, the intended view is displayed but my submitt ...

The issue I have is with the database abstraction. I believe abstraction is important, but I feel that if I choose to used the PEAR::DB or ADOdb in my PHP code, then I can't create the pgsql function ...

Here is the list from the php.net links page:
http://www.php.net/links.php#accelerators

I saw that too. I was curious that none of the examples showed any SQL interaction. You could see how a PHP developer could use it for familar syntax for doing formatting operations, but I will need ...

I think you could write a prefilter to accomplish that.

This is the kind of problem I experience (non-Smarty related) when I have custom error handling enabled, and a PHP fatal error creeps into my code.

Perhaps try error_reporting(E_ALL); as the first ...

in a template
{$var|str_pad:30}
should work, but unless you are in <pre> or <code> HTML will just eat the spaces anyway... Rolling Eyes

I would probably do:
$faqs = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res,MYSQL_ASSOC)){
$faqs

Well, that should get some wheels turning...

Shocked

More like mind bending! Left me speachless for days Smile

Did you have some thoughts about what your abstract language would look like? Some ...

I just recently implemented a script that renders a hierarchy. I was able to construct a single array to send to Smarty to accomplish the rendering.

The structure looked like this:
<?php
$a = ...

<?php
$smarty->register_function('appl_url', 'smarty_appl_url');

/**
* function to write an application url
*
* makes the assumption that anything not explicitly overridden s ...

I usually send a tag for the base URL, and append as nescesarry. For situation where I know I will be having many vars that need to be updated and output every time, I will write a custom function.
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