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Plugins can be either loaded by Smarty automatically from the filesystem or they can be registered at runtime via one of the register_* API functions. They can also be unregistered by using unregister_* API functions.
For the plugins that are registered at runtime, the name of the plugin function(s) does not have to follow the naming convention.
If a plugin depends on some functionality provided by another plugin (as is the case with some plugins bundled with Smarty), then the proper way to load the needed plugin is this:
<?php function smarty_function_yourPlugin(array $params, Smarty_Internal_Template $template) { // load plugin depended upon $template->smarty->loadPlugin('smarty_shared_make_timestamp'); // plugin code } ?>
As a general rule, the currently evaluated template's Smarty_Internal_Template object is always passed to the plugins as the last parameter with two exceptions:
modifiers do not get passed the Smarty_Internal_Template object at all
blocks get passed
$repeat
after the Smarty_Internal_Template object to keep
backwards compatibility to older versions of Smarty.