Smarty

[camus546]

I am converting a xml generating script i use. What I would like to do is to convert all html entites. I can do this in php by using a strtr with get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES). I was looking for a way to perform the translation implcitly in smarty.

Options:
1. manually translate all vars before assigning to tpl
Painful + slow
2. modify $tpl->assign (or override, etc) to perform processing
3. add var modifier each time
4. have some way to define an implicit modifiers
ie {$title} => {$title|toxml}

an implicit modifer would be ideal since then i only call it on variables i need to. (There is alot of data i pass to the template i might not use).

An output filter wouldnt work since xml tags would be converted too. I just need everything between the tags converted.

thanks

[boots]

[messju]

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/variable.default.modifiers.php ??

[camus546]

It seems that if i use different values for default_modifier, i need to recompile the template to have the modifier be propagated throughout the template.

[messju]

thats true. default_modifier is a compile-time-setting.

you can trick around it if you assign a modifier that dispatches to a function dynamically:

sth. like:
[php:1:4097422a18]
function default_modifier($value) {
global $default_modifier;
if (isset($default_modifier))
return call_user_func($default_modifier, $value);
else
return $value;
}

$smarty->default_modifier = 'default_modifier';[/php:1:4097422a18]

and then set $GLOBALS['default_modifier'] accordingly.

[boots]

... create different compile_id versions.

[messju]