Smarty

[Metzen]

{literal} tags work great usually, but when dynamically generating JavaScript or CSS code you find yourself in and out of literal mode about every other line.

So, here is my proposed solution:

Allow a secondary set of delimiters:

$smarty->left_delimiter = '{';
$smarty->right_delimiter = '}';
$smarty->left_delimiter_backup = '<!--{';
$smarty->right_delimiter_backup = '}-->';

Then when you are in JS or CSS code instead of surrounding it with {literal} and {/literal}, you surround it with {use_backup} and {/use_backup}, or whatever, which tells Smarty to ONLY parse the backup delimiters.

So you could use either set of delimiters anywhere in any of your templates, except in between {use_backup} and {/use_backup} where only the backup delimiters would be used.

Thoughts?

[mohrt]

an easier method would be to write a prefilter that seeks out your javascript/css delimiters and replace them with {ldelim} {rdelim} just before compiling. Then there is no special syntax necessary in the template.