Smarty

[durangod]

Basically how we do this is that we assign a smarty value wether it be an array or string.

if its an array we parse it on the page with a

foreach from=whatever item=item

and then we can refer to it by {$item.name} all that works fine other than what im trying to do in this case

we pull the language key value from our language file like so

{text key='name+keyname'} easy peasy right.

the problem is that i am trying to parse that exact phrase from a array element

the value of my array element {$item.accountType} is exactly this brackets and all
{text key='name+keyname'}

so my thought is that i could just do this

<td>{$item.accountType}</td>

and it would be exactly the same as doing this

<td>{text key='name+keyname'}</td>

which should bring up that lang key value which is the word Standard

but it does not work that way, on my page im getting variable value

{text key='name+keyname'} parsing but not the lang value.


basically im trying to do the langauge value key dynamically instead of having the litereal {text key='name+keyname'} in the html file i just dynamically change it.

but its not working and i dont know why. I have tried literal i have tried
{{$item.accountType}} double brackets.

whats the secret here.... thanks for any assistance.

[AnrDaemon]

No secrets. If I understand you right, you're either use wrong syntax (tags as tag attributes - just use variables rather than tags), or trying to move business logic into template(don't do that!).

[U.Tews]

The value of a template variable is not parsed for Smarty tags..
In theory it could be done by using the {eval} tag like

[durangod]

thanks very much that was some great help.... appreciate that