Smarty

[rjdavid]

I have created a cms application framework wherein each page is composed of blocks that can be positioned anywhere in a page depending on the permissions of the user. To make the long story short, each block has its own template.

So what I am doing is something like:
1.) Retrieve all blocks info for a page for a user type
2.) Parse the template for each block (including assignments of values to the template depending on the block)
2.) For each page position (e.g. left column), I iterate all blocks displayed in that position using the output for each block

So it means that I have a main layout template wherein there are smarty foreach for each page position. And then the individual templates for each block.

What I am doing before is use smarty fetch to get the output for each block and assign it to a smarty variable again and then call smarty display function for the final output.

That is not efficient. Why? Output modifiers are being executed twice for each block template. Therefore if I am trimming spaces for my output, the function does it twice.

As for my current solution, I created another function called subfetch in my extended smarty class which is a trimmed version of fetch.

I just want to request if it is possible for such function to exist in smarty for cases outlined above.

Thanks