Smarty

chaosone

Hi!

I've been using Smarty for almost a year now, and am really liking it. I have only really got on to doing some serious work with it in the past two months, and have come across something that I haven't been able to (satisfactorily) solve reading FAQs, Wiki, searching the forum and such.

I am using Smarty 2.5.0 by the way.

I have started using objects to hold a lot of page information, one piece of which is contained within an array. As an example (from my project) I have a $layout object with a $scripts array in it, with each element of that array holding an array with associative values such as "rel"=>"stylesheet" "href"=>"mystyle.css" etc. What I would like to do is quickly access this array from the Smarty template, after assigning the object to the template object.

messju · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:46 pm Post subject:

it looks logical to me too and the php-code produced by {$layout->scripts[count_s].rel is also correct. is your script array indexed by 0..n-1 as it has to when used with {section} ?

boots · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject:

Hi chasone.

AFAIK, that syntax is not supported, at least in 2.5.0 (at least it never works for me). Looking at your code I can suggest two somewhat simple workarounds:

1) Use an intermediate variable. This is a bit messy, though.

messju · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:52 pm Post subject:

'nah boots, the syntax is correct and supported. but i agree with you that foreach simplifies things sometimes really and this case is a good example that it does Smile

boots · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject:

My bad. Like I said, it never worked for me, though I never tried too hard since I typically try to structure for foreach anyhow. As I typically use associative arrays, that could have been my problem with the syntax.

Never-the-less, I was unaware that that syntax was available in 2.5.0, so thanks for that. I still suggest the foreach route as it makes for lighter code Smile

chaosone · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the speedy response guys, I feel a bit stupid now though because after five hours (at least) trying to find out why Smarty didn't support this syntax and then posting here for some help, I realise it's actually my PHP coding that was buggered up Embarassed

As messju pointed out, the array has to be index by 0...n-1, but because of the way I was adding items to the array for my $layout object, this wasn't happening! Apologies for being a bit brain dead looking at my code, at least it has taught boots a new syntax Smile