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alejandrocarg
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:58 pm    Post subject: Replacing a variable with a variable Reply with quote

Hi there, first post :]

I have something like this all along one of my scripts

{$a.hello.id}
or sometimes..
{if $a.hello.id ... }

I also have a small if now, at the top of my script, checking if we need the info of $a or $b.
So sometimes, I might need..
{$a.hello.id}
and sometimes, I might need..
{$b.hello.id}

I've searched the forum, and found a nice, working way to make a variable variable, like this:

{assign var="new_var" value="var_name"}
{assign var=$new_var value="I could variate"}
{$var_name}
Output is "I could variate"

by bigfishphilip [thanks Wink]



Now the problem is replacing the statements. I've tried many things, including backticks, double quotes, etc. without any success.

It should look something like this:

$var_holding_replacement is 'b'

So I replace all the

{$a.hello.id}
with something like
{$'$var_holding_replacement'.hello.id}

and on render, it should look like
{$b.hello.id}



Any help would be appreciated :]

PD: sometimes, I won't need exactly .hello.id, so the only thing that MUST change is only the starting word.
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rodneyrehm
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe you'd be better off if you did something like this instead:

Code:
{* determine what you need to work with *}
{if $some_condition}
  {$z = $a}
{else}
  {$z = $b}
{/if}

{* work it *}
{$z.hello.id}


Anyways, what you were asking for is
Code:
{$foo_{$bar}}

which is equivalent to the php
Code:
${"foo_$bar"}

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alejandrocarg
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Joined: 22 Apr 2012
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rodneyrehm wrote:
I believe you'd be better off if you did something like this instead:

Code:
{* determine what you need to work with *}
{if $some_condition}
  {$z = $a}
{else}
  {$z = $b}
{/if}

{* work it *}
{$z.hello.id}


Anyways, what you were asking for is
Code:
{$foo_{$bar}}

which is equivalent to the php
Code:
${"foo_$bar"}


@rodneyrehm, thanks for your reply!

As you said, it was as simple as your first example. I was doing a mistake by stating $z = b, and not $z = $b. My bad ;[

There's this one thing though; one of the values (say $b) I'm passing is an array. Something like $b[key]. I'm not being able to get that through. I've tried backticks without any success either ($z = "`$b[key]`"). $a is working fine though.

http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.syntax.quotes.tpl
{func var="test $foo[bar] test"} <-- sees $foo[bar]

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance :]


Nevermind, I was puting the code outside the loop. Problem solved Smile

Thank you very much!
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