Smarty

[dougmcc1]

How do I use smarty to count the number of slashes in the URI and store it in a variable?

Here is the php code that I need to convert to smarty:

$url_path = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$count_of_slashes = count(explode('/', $url_path))-1;
echo $count_of_slashes;

Thanks!

[AnrDaemon]

WHY do you need to do it in Smarty to begin with?
Are you trying to pull business logic into presentation layer or what?

[dougmcc1]

Because the software I'm working its requires it, or else I wouldn't ask

Do you or anyone else have an answer or more questions?

[AnrDaemon]

Write a string modifier (filter) which would return the number of slashes in a given string.
Just, don't use explode(), or I'll explode() your head.

Refs
http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.modifiers.tpl
http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/plugins.modifiers.tpl

[U.Tews]