Smarty

datenpunk · Smarty Rookie Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 6

Hello,

is there a way to have dynamic variable names in smarty.

e.g.

1. assign $cLANG to 'EN'

template:
$ItemDescription_$cLANG

now I want smarty to output the value of
$ItemDescription_EN

I don't want to use if's for that and there is no way to make an array looking like $ItemDescription[$cLANG].

Any chance for me to solve this?

Thanks in advance

Daniel Khan

bkatsma · Smarty n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 3

Try catinating it.

{$ItemDescription_|cat:"$cLANG}

And look here.
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.cat.php

messju · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject:

@datenpunk: this is not easily possible, maybe only with some ugly custom plugins/modifiers.

you are best of using another format for your data, that suits better to smarty or do the conversion in php and not in smarty.

for example: if you don't have $ItemDescription_EN and $ItemDescription_DE etc. in php but instead
$ItemDescription['EN'] and $ItemDescription['DE'] etc.
then you can easily access them as $ItemDescription.$cLANG in smarty.