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jmarkantes Smarty n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:11 am Post subject: setting up plugins directory for easy upgrades? |
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Howdy all-
How do you guys manage upgrading smarty, while maintaining custom plugins in addition to the plugins that come with smarty?
I'm starting to write some custom plugins, and also want to keep the existing ones that come with smarty. When I upgrade smarty in the future, normally I just repoint a symlink to the latest smarty directory. But with my own plugins, I'll also need to remember to copy my plugins into the new plugin directory. I could do the other direction and put everything in a seperate plugin directory, but then I'd have to remember to copy the latest plugins from the latest smarty into my custom directory.
I've read through the best practices page on the smarty wiki with no insight. I've also tried assigning multiple plugin directories in my smarty object, seperated by a semicolon, but it doesn't like that. Anyone know if you can have multiple directories assigned there?
Anyways, it's late, I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help!
Jason |
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messju Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 3336 Location: Oldenburg, Germany
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:33 am Post subject: |
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If you want to maintain multiple-plugins-dirs you have to make $smarty->plugins_dir an array.
I often do:
[app/config.php]
[php:1:1575bf58f1]
define('BASEDIR', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); /* applications base */
define('SMARTY_DIR', '....full/path/to/smarty/libs/'); /* smarty's base */
require_once(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
...
$smarty->plugins_dir = array(BASEDIR . 'plugins',
SMARTY_DIR . 'plugins');
[/php:1:1575bf58f1]
If I switch the "....full/path/to/smarty/libs/" everything else can stay as is.
The order of the elements in plugins_dir also enables me to override Smarty's distribution's plugins: For example: If a function.html_image.php is found in "BASEDIR . 'plugins'" (maybe one with nifty scaling features and without the braindead "dpi"-option ) then that one is preferred over the one in "SMARTY_DIR . 'plugins'". |
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boots Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 5611 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:00 am Post subject: |
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FWIW, I do the same thing as messju (and for the same reason--I can override distribution plugins if I want). What I have found in practice is that I pretty much never override plugins in that way. Still, I like to keep my plugins separate from the distribution plugins, so it is a very useful technique.
However, considering that Smarty searches for plugins based on the directory order, you may want to consider having the Smarty plugins come first if you mainly use those. It probably won't make very much of a difference overall, but it can start to be noticable if you have several layers of plugin directories to search (which I once had for a particular project).
Just a thought. |
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