Smarty

[boots]

Hi all.

Is there a roadmap of features detailing what is being worked on or being planned. Project goals for upcoming versions?

For example, I remember a passing comment on the smarty-dev mailing list concerning adding resource support to config files. True or false?

[AZTEK]

Perhaps http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=SmartyTODO has some of the future goals though it looks like some of those have been done
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[boots]

Thanks. I just looked in the directory above Smarty/lib (ie. Smarty ) and lo and behold, there is a TODO there. Its updated compared to the wiki entry.

Still, kinda sparse in terms of info

This one is interesting:

UPD: change it so that if template comes from some resource,
that resource stays as the default, no need to specify it
in includes.

Isn't that almost (but not quite) like http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=26 ?

[AZTEK]

Well i think it means if you load a template from a db in that template you dont have to specify db for the rest of the includes
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"Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." -Peter Cochrane

[boots]

That's what it sounds like. Sort-of like an auto cd, but for resources. The way I read _parse_file_path(), this doesn't happen yet (that's why its a todo. right.) But, it sounds like if this gets supported so can an overall default

[Wom.bat]

I guess the most important things are

• ability to get indexes of associative arrays --> try {foreach from=$array key="index" item="value"}{/foreach}
  
• ability to concatenate values/strings together
  
• caching all but parts of the template
  
• make simple math easier
  

[andre]

[boots]

* change plugins so $smarty variable always comes first

This one should be done sooner or later, even though it breaks BC. Probably leave it for low priority, unless a lot of custom plugins start to get developed.

* support implementations of prefiltes, mods, and others as class methods.

This I want to see! I would also like to see some sort of functionality grouping mechanism, like packages or contexts.

Also a plugable cache interface so that default cache handling can be replaced.

[Wom.bat]

boots: see the latest version in CVS. I am currently using object methods for pre, post, outputfilters, functions, modifiers, even cache-handlers (own cache handlign functions have ALWAYS been possible! $smarty->cache_handler_func!)
I requested this some time ago and it's now included (note: you need to use object methods, i.e. $smarty->register_prefilter("foo", array(&$obj, "foo"));, class methods don't work afaik

andre: this virus will hopefully one day rule the world
I'll have to check on the features which are, according to you, already done; would be nice check my posting in your nocache-thread on "caching but all parts of the template"... simple math yould be _great_

[boots]

[Wom.bat]

I was, too, when finally there was this nice sound that plays when receiving a new mail and the message I had waited for so long was there, in the folder Smarty-CVS