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ilyalyu
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:28 pm    Post subject: Template inheritance: passing variables to parent template Reply with quote

Is there a way to pass variable to parent template? Something like this:

{extends 'parent.html' var1='value1' var2='value2'}
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You shouldn't have to do that, what are you trying to do? Any block you are extending can use the local vars.
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ilyalyu
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I need to use one variable in several blocks.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Template inheritance does merge/replace blocks of child templates at compile time into the parent template. The resulting code is rendered in the context of one template object. So assigned local variables have not the scope of a block, but the scope of the whole parent template.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually pasing variable to parent could quite usefull

Example

main.tpl
Code:
<ul id="mainmenu">
            <li {if $mainMenuActive|default == "dashboard"}class="active"{/if}><a href="/">Dashboard</a></li>
            <li {if $mainMenuActive|default == "calendar"}class="active"{/if}><a href="/Calendar">Calendar</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="page">
            {block name='content'}{/block}
</div>


dasboard.tpl
Code:
{extends file='main.tpl'}
{block name='content'}
{assign var="mainMenuActive" value="dashboard" scope="parent"}
Some content
{/block}


There might be syntax errors, as I don't use block/extend in favour of capture/include but i hope idea is clear.

I know there is partial workaround http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17425, https://gist.github.com/832525. But it breaks on deeper inheritance.

Capture/include does this gracefully even allow scoping.

I think that parent blocks should be able to use vars assigned in children. It might look that this breaks encapsulation, but it doesn't. If you look on this from perspective : "parent declare(use) property, derived from it child define(assign) this property", encapsulation is fine. Of course there can be some trouble with multiple inheritance, like in every language that allows it is.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I explained before in template inheritance child and parent telates have the same scope. So all variables assigned in a chiled template are seen by the parent template.

In your example you use $mainMenuActive before it gets assigned by the 'content' block that does not work. Child blocks are executed when they apear in the parent.

The scope=parent of the {assign} tag has nothing to do with template inheritance. The scope here references the calling template when you use {include}
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