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dms_90069 · Smarty n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Greetings,

Firsts thank you for such a great package and resource. I am a newbe and am trying to use a php function as the action for a form. Is that at all possible?

Can you in general bind a php function to the action attribute of a form?

Thanks,
dms[/code]

zbert · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if you can bind a php function to the action attribute of a form but you can suppy key => value pairs. For example;

dms_90069 · Smarty n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks Zbert,

Is that the prefered way to process forms while using smarty templates? How would you persue the separation of display vs business logic? Are there any references on how to accomplish that with smarty?

Thanks one and all.
dms

zbert · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:38 am Post subject:

I don't know if that's the preferred way. I've only been trying to learn this myself over the last couple of weeks. I learn a little more each day and I am sure there's a whole lot more to go. Shocked

Anyway, I figure you should create your form as a template file (because you can use a nice layout program like Dreamweaver, etc...) and then do all of your processing in a PHP file. Once you've processed your data, you would then create tempalte variables to send back to a Smarty template for display.

--zbert

kenzor · Smarty Rookie Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 9

You could always pass the action from PHP to the template...

PHP:

dms_90069 · Smarty n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks Kenzor,

Your approach looks like the way to go. Although I had mentioned binding the action to a function, what I really wanted was to dynamicly assign the action as in your example.

I will continue to chew on this, but I think I have what I need.

Thanks,
dms