Smarty

[dreamwing]

{extends file="{myClass::method()}/header.tpl"} will trigger an error:
"illegal value for file attribute"

but if I use $tpl_dir = myClass::method(); and then use $dir in template
{extends file="{$tpl_dir}/header.tpl"} this is ok.

My point is now that in Smarty3 we can access static class directly in template, why not add this feature to extends syntax?

And thx for the fantastic {extends} syntax~

[U.Tews]

As the template inheritance is processed at compile time the {extends} tag should accept only constant strings. It's a bug that it did accept the $tpl_dir variable. A change of it's value would not be detected.

If you need variable templates use the exteds resource at script level like
$smarty->display('extends:layout.tpl|myproject.tpl|mypage.tpl');
Here you can safely use a variable string.

[dreamwing]

thx for the script level resolution, althought I think it would be more convenient to use variables in {extends} tag