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hexetic · Smarty n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2015 Posts: 3

If I have the inheritance chain A->B->C (i.e., C extends from B which extends from A), it seems like there's no way for B to declare a {function} that {C} could use. The Smarty docs say that the compiler will ignore anything except {block} declarations in B.tpl, but there's no way for C to use functions declared within one of B's blocks, is that right?

I would really like to be able to declare functions in B that would be visible to B's children but not to all of A's children. A is a global presentation template that defines the basic layout of the webpage. B is a refinement for a specific area of the website. C is a particular page. There are some things which are common to B's area but none of the other pages.

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

Overengineering at its finest.
Do not define "functions in templates", problem solved.
If you need template function, define it as a plugin.

U.Tews · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 4:47 am Post subject:

This will be possible with the next release 3.1.28 which I will release next week. You can try already the version in the master branch on github.