Smarty

[bobokiki]

Hi, I've been playing with Smarty for a few days now.

I can't seem to figure out how to have an included template assign a global var:


MAIN.TPL
{include file="foo.tpl"}
{$bar}


FOO.TPL
{assign var="bar" value"35"}



MAIN.TPL doesn't see the $bar variable, presumably because it's local to FOO.TPL . I assume I'd have to assign "bar" as a global somehow -- not sure how that's done?

Thanks for the help.

[CirTap]

Hi,
"globals" must to be assigned with $smarty->assign('bar', 35), or if the value is suitable for a config.file, put it in there and a {config_load} in your main template.
{assign}ments and {configs_load}s you do in "sub templates" are local to them.
With assign() in PHP, or {config_load} in the main template, you can then use all the variables and configs in the sub-templates.

The following is a blatant assumption as I haven't tried it (yet), but if 'foo.tpl' MUST assign a value to $bar, you may try to "prepare" Smarty for it using[php:1:626eed34bc]<?php
$dummyfoo = 0; // just to have sth. to reference
$smarty->assign_by_ref('bar', $dummyfoo);
?>[/php:1:626eed34bc]
I dunno if this works, but because $smarty already knew about 'bar' in the beginning it should work.

Have fun,
CirTap

[bobokiki]

Thanks for the response.

I was hoping to this via templates only. I guess I can just copy the contents of the included file into MAIN.TPL. The include file is only called from a couple other templates so I'll do the same. I just hate having redundant info all over the place...