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johdah · Smarty n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2014 Posts: 1

I really love the inherit function in Smarty. But I can't get it to work perfectly with my design.
I have a master.tpl with a couple of blocks, one for the html head section for example.
I also have a page.tpl that extends master.tpl and add contents to the blocks.
So far no problems. But I also have a bunch of widgets, one for an image slider for example. Today I use the fetch function for image_slide.tpl and save the template in a variable. This var is then sent to page.tpl and its content is put in a block.
This work fine, but its not optimal. I want to be able to send data to different master blocks from the widget. My image-slider for example, needs to put data into a head block in master, but also in a css block and in a jquery block - besides the actual widget html block. If the widget was the child to master.tpl this would be simple, but it ain't. Page is the child and a couple of widgets is siblings to page.
Thanks for any help!

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

include, capture… Thre's multiple ways to do what you want.
I.e. I'm using this template to cache the output of included template in parent one.