Smarty

bsmither · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:31 am Post subject: Direct Access to Variable

In the doc page:
http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/variable.template.dir.tpl
a comment is made that "As of Smarty 3.1 the attribute $template_dir is no longer accessible directly."

Yet I see many working examples in these forums of:
$Smarty->template_dir = "something";

If this is not direct access, what would an example be that I can no longer use?

U.Tews · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:56 am Post subject:

The template_dir folders and other needs to be sanitized and some other action is necessary when the folders are changed. For this
reasion we introduced the setter/getter functions.

But you still direct access the property as the access gets mapped by the magic __get() __set() functions to the setter/getter.

But you do loose some performance...