Smarty

[king_2]

I trying to use smarty and have a problem.

I do fetch() of some template. inside that temple I using {include file='another.tpl' myvar="valueofmyvar"}

How to access from {php} of another.tpl to myvar?
{php}
error_log("VAR = ".$this->get_template_vars('myvar'));
{/php}
produses error "PHP Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /lib/smarty3/plugins/block.php.php(34) : eval()'d code on line 2".

If I do
global $app;
$app->smarty->get_templates... - it return ampty (not set) var.

What to do?

[mohrt]

Don't use {php} tags. Logging should not even be in the presentation logic, do that in PHP. If you had to you could make a plugin like {log_error msg
=$var}, but I'd opt for doing your logging in the business logic.

[king_2]

This is for example only.

I use CMS, that collects all sub-templates in PHP variables, needed at URL, then compiles all sub-templates into main template.

In sub-templates I using {php} inly for calling PHP object that will get current context and fill all data needed by sub-template.

Like this (article.list.tpl):

{php}
load_module("article", "get_articles_list", array(step=>10));
{/php}

load_module does include article.php if not included yet, and calls method get_article_list from Article object with params. Inside this get_article_list I checks param retrieved from agruments, from $_REQUEST and from smarty variables to get maximum flexibility.

Later I can or fetch() sub-template directly from PHP kernel code (since I know that i will need this sub-template for some URLs), or call it from another template (mainpage.tpl) like this:

{include file="article-list.tpl" step=5}
overriding 'step' parameter to display only 5 first articles on mainpage (while displaying 20 on all list-pages).

Now I have 'fast-and-ugly' workaround in block_php.php:
global $current_tpl;
$current_tpl = $template;

and
$tpl_value = $current_smarty->getVariable('article_path')->value;
in object that gets list of articles.

So, I still need method for accessing to local scope variables from {php} code.

[mohrt]

Don't use {php} tags, use a plugin instead. So this:

[wdm]

i used {php} to exit from further unnecessary execution

example
{include file="messages.tpl"}
messages.tpl:
{if !$smarty.session.messages}{php}return;{/php}{/if}

how to solve this in smarty 3?

if i dont like this way:
{if $smarty.session.messages}{include file="messages.tpl"}{/if}

[mohrt]

the latter way is preferred, why go to the trouble including a tpl that may not be needed? You could also reverse the {if} block in message.tpl instead of trying to return early.

[wdm]

thats ugly because you at the bottom find {/if} and dont visualy see what meaning it has...

another question
is it possible to assign variable to template object not to smarty (in that case this variable can rewrite parent template variable)
{php}$smarty->assign('test', 'test');{/php}

i know i can do {$test="test"} but i need to do this from php block

to have same result:
<?php $_smarty_tpl->assign('test',"test"),null,null);?>

maybe i can access template object form $smarty object?
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