Smarty

TakingSides · Smarty Rookie Joined: 11 Dec 2010 Posts: 30

HI All,

a few months ago I said I was going to release a framework which makes use of the Smarty library. After a release candidate which I felt could be improved, anyway more to the subject of Smarty..

My framework makes use of Namespaces. There's application logic and packages.

Smarty is imported as a package, and used by the core package.

What's the easiest way of namespacing Smarty without modifying the core files and losing the changes when I upgrade each release? Or would Smarty be able to support namespacing?

rodneyrehm · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:35 am Post subject:

There are two sides to namespaces with Smarty.

1) exposing / encapsulating Smarty itself in a namespace.

As Smarty3 is PHP5.2 compatible, this is simply not going to happen any time soon. As sad as this makes me myself, I don't think it's going to happen for Smarty3. Reason: quite slow adoption rate of major PHP releases. Too many people are still running old PHP versions.

2) accessing namespaced elements.

We're working on improving our APIs so namespaced functions can be registered, so templates can understand namespaced classes and constants. But these improvements won't be available any time soon.
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