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Why did you no use

require_once 'custom_functions_definitions.php';

I have posted an related issue
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/314

You must use class autoloader for that kind of tasks. Then you won't need to waste your time inventing wheels.
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It seems autoloader does not work in this case

$smarty->registerF ...

You must use class autoloader for that kind of tasks. Then you won't need to waste your time inventing wheels.
SEE ALSO:

Thank you for the solution

I suppose

$smarty->addAutoloadFilters(array('mainPreFilter'), 'pre');

is better

Hello,

How can I run a custom function before compilation?

Ie something like 'on compile hook for a file'/'on compile event listener a file'
or
something like 'global on compile hook'/'global ...

By "this" I meant X-Cart throwing Smarty errors after php update.. the actual error is
Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "admin/home.tpl" in /homepages/7/,,,,/Smarty ...

The fix is now on github in the master branch.
It will be soon included in the maintenance release 3.1.29

Please, have a look
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/9a8bcb93b1c7a4df574fc7 ...

Your answer is complete.
Thank you for the corrections.

I have changed my sample code
http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=89419#89419

You are right

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6619020/how-can-i-define-the-directory-separator-for-both-windows-and-linux-platform

"PHP accepts both \ and / as valid path separators i ...

addPluginsDir() does append your custom plugins folder to the search order. So Smarty will find its default modifier first.

Use setPluginsDir() and place you folder first in array().
See http://ww ...

Yes, the search order for plugins does first look for compiler versions of the plugins.

So you must remove it, or you can replace it's code with

$output = '(empty(' . $output . ') ...

Just a note

Your default modifier will not work on tags like
{tag|default:"DOES NOT WORK"}

I have changed the default
include/lib/smarty3/plugins/modifiercompiler. ...

Yes, the search order for plugins does first look for compiler versions of the plugins.

So you must remove it, or you can replace it's code with

$output = '(empty(' . $output . ') ...

Normally Smarty2 modifier do run also under Smarty3.

Yes, in your case you must remove the modifiercompiler.strip_tags.php file because of the search order for modifier.

I would like to overwrit ...