Smarty

Psiwar · Smarty n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

Imagine the following smarty template...

messju · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

hmm. i'm not sure if i understood what you want.

if you only have simple-vars, you could probably register a prefilter that uses preg_match() to look for "{$...}"-elements.

do you want to count the occurrence in the template-source or in the template's output? (a prefilter would work on the source).

Psiwar · Smarty n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

On the source. Well i figured as much... i will use a pre-filter to build an indexed array and then parse the xml with SAX (to build a similar array).

I think it would be a nice function to add to smarty. Something that walks the source template and then builds an associative array in the format of $array["var_name"][n]. It would make it easier for the programmer and it would removed much of the cycles from smarty templates.

messju · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

sorry i don't get it.

what do you mean by '$array["var_name"][n]' ? you mean a mapping variable-name to count of occurrences of this variable?

i really don't know anybody else who has use for that than you.

which cycles would be removed? i think cpu-cycles would be added to build that array.

Psiwar · Smarty n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

I was just thinking of template cycles.

Anyway, i made it to be as simple as:

$tpl->assign('somevar', $xml->DATA['somevar']);

where $xml->DATA['somevar'] is an array with all instances of a certain tag. Then it's just a matter of using {$somevar[0]}, {$somevar[1]}, etc or using a cycle in the template. (that i was trying to avoid)