Smarty

[lepra]

Maybe this is an easy one, but i have looked all over the docs and this forum and haven't found a similar situation, but maybe i'm dumb or blind.. however..

when i wrote it in php (without using smarty) it looked like this:
for($i=0; $i<=$somevalue; $i++)
{
$MenuOne->drawMenu($i);
}

Let's say the value of $i could be like 100, what is the solution to loop through this in smarty?

I can't use smartys register_object function cause it can't be looped like this says the documentation. Is it possible to assign the object ($MenuOne->drawMenu()) as an array? it sounds wrong in my ears.

i have tried many different solutions, i.e. this one:
{section name=i loop=$somevalue }
{$MenuOne->drawMenu($i)}
{/section}

(where $somevalue is already smarty-assigned in the php-part)
I tried just typing the object name cause it said it would work somehere in the docs, but it doesn't seem to work.

I would be very thankful for any kind of help.
I run smarty 2.5.0

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and i also want to share a completely other tip:
if you have a php-script (which maybe not use smarty) and include another php-script in it, which is in another directory and which uses smarty, you should remember that the template must be stored in the same directory as the main php-script, NOT in the same directory as the included php-script.

it might look obvious, but i got stuck on it for some while :]

sorry for my english, i'm just a stupid blonde swede.

[boots]

Hi lepra.

AFAIK, the register_object restriction doesn't apply in your case since you are not looping over the object, but merely calling a method of the object in a loop. Furthermore, using assign instead of register removes the remaining restrictions.

For example, the following works great for me:
[php:1:06f4762dcd]<?php
$smarty->assign_by_ref( 'BLOCK', new PageData );
$smarty->display( 'block.tpl' );
?>[/php:1:06f4762dcd]

[Enquest]

I am not sure if I do understand you completly.

But it apears to me you want to run a function for 10 times or so.

But why don't put all the work in in your function and put the data in an array.
return the result. That way you simple have to assign it smarty.
In smarty you can do a simple {section} or whatever is your wish by getting your data out of the array! Thats seem more logical?

Or am I wrong?
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[lepra]

hi!

Thanks a lot for the help, it helped me partly but i'm unfortunatly still stuck. I'm a newbie at smarty and not very experienced with oop, however assign_by_ref seems to be the right solution as you said. The debug window now shows an array containing all possible values. My problem now is that i don't know how to loop through it in a correct way.

Since the number of loops may vary depending on what the parameter to the method is (the variable $i in: $MenuOne->drawMenu($i)) , i can't use a foreach-loop since it loops through the complete array, doesn't it? so i guess i'll have to use a section-loop so that i can control how many times it will loop, and that's not a problem. The problem is that i don't understand how to write to display the values of the method.

I have tried like this now:
[php:1:ef94bca4ae]
...
$smarty->assign_by_ref( 'menuthing', $MenuOne );
...
[/php:1:ef94bca4ae]
and in the template:

[lepra]

[boots]

{$menuthing->drawMenu($smarty.section.i.index)} ??

[Enquest]

[lepra]