Smarty

fyfe · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject: Accessing an array of objects

How do I pass an array of objects to smarty? At the moment I'm having to go through the array of objects and create an array of arrays in php like so:

[php:1:65032243d3]
// Returns an array of Film objects
$films = $objectStore->objectsWithRawSQLFilter( 'Film', $sql_query );

$films_array = array();
$total = count( $films );
if ( $total > 0 ) {
for ( $i = 0; $i < $total; $i++ ) {
$films_array[$i] = array(
'id' => $films[$i]->id(),
'title' => $films[$i]->title(),
[...Very Large Snip...]
'year' => $films[$i]->year()
);
}
}

$smarty->assign( 'films', $films_array );
[/php:1:65032243d3]
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mischa · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:30 pm Post subject:

Hi

You've access to objects within Smarty:

[php:1:c7b565a5de]
$smarty->assign('films',$films); // $films ->array of objects
[/php:1:c7b565a5de]

Template:

mohrt · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject:

btw, it's a good habit to assign object by reference.

[php:1:bce2423865]$smarty->assign_by_ref('films', $films);[/php:1:bce2423865]

Monte

fyfe · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks

I don't know what I was trying to do before but it just wouldn't work.
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Enquest · Smarty Regular Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 79

Mohrt can you explain why its a good idee to asign by ref.

thanxs
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mohrt · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject:

If you assign an object normally, PHP4 makes an in-memory copy of the entire object. If you assign_by_ref(), then a reference to the original object is made which saves a substantial processing and memory overhead.

Monte

fyfe · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject:

And in PHP5 it always asigns objects by ref.
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mpk · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:43 am Post subject:

May I make this a bit more difficult: I have an array of arrays of objects...

So my data structure is like this

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => film Object ( [filmID] => 001200306230815)
[1] => film Object ( [filmID] => 001200306230830 ) ) )
Array ( [1] => Array ( [0] => film Object ( [filmID] => 001200306230845 ) ))
Array ( )

I'm trying to print in template with something like this :
{foreach from=$allfilms item=filmcategory}
{foreach from=$filmcategory item=film}
{$film->filmID}
{/foreach}
{/foreach}

But it won't work.
Any ideas?