Smarty

[durangod]

Hi,

I normally work on older versions of smarty but today i ran across something i had not seen before.

While working on a tpl file i found an if statment that was wrapped with the - sign.

Example: -{if whatever == 1}-
do something
-{/if}-

upon investigation i discovered that the - sign was preventing the code from being parsed to the page upon execution. With the - it was not present on page and ran just fine.

I have never seen this before, is this something new to smarty? Is this a custom engine based on smarty?

Anyone ever seen this and can explain this to me, thanks...

[elpmis]

No, it's available for a long time .

You can define the delimiters like you want. Default is {...}.

But the brackets are used too by JavaScript, CSS and so on.

So you can define other delimiters and Smarty will running without any problems.

[AnrDaemon]

Custom delimiters were a Smarty feature for a long time. Longer than I can remember.
This may be useful, if you need to process template through two engines (i.e. a secure and insecure templating instances, or a template engine that itself generate templates for later execution by an actual webserver).

[durangod]

Hi thank you both, yes i have seen and used the {} myself in coding just never saw a custom delimeter like that lol..

Sorry for the late "thank you" i have been sick for a few days.

Appreciate the info i will use that more often

[elpmis]

To complete the informations

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.escaping.tpl