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this is a known bug. there is some discussion of this in previous posts.

as you discovered through your admirable testing, there is support for one level group above, but no further.

the change ...

http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=BandedReportGenerator

This is a copy/paste job, but there are nice hints telling you where to put everything.

cheers.

As Forrest Gump said: Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

You say you've got normalized data in your tables that you then de-normalize and send through the BRG... ...

It's never foolish to ask...

It's a deeper problem... You need to normalize your data structure. The BRG will not detect deficiencies in the database design. When your database is properly normaliz ...

Hi Boots... thanks for the reply. Glad to hear things have progressed with this plugin.

Here's a stab at a simple sample:

A recordset with results that span 1 year.
Fields quarter and type.
...

Long time no squeak! I'm at it again... I am trying to use banded report generator (BRG) on a slightly different problem. It boils down to the issue that I can't seem to get a left outer join behavior ...

a little shorthand description of a recordset... note this is not an assoc array:

OOPS! Embarassed

Don't use the code if you saw it here before I edited the post. It's broken.

let me know how that ...

IMO, the main idea behind this plugin (besides the pedagogical) is to push some level of database querying to the mythical "smarty template designer." Also, it can lessen some of the repetetive things ...

Ah yes. The arrays built by the report_header block are not grouped by the nesting group. It is just a straight array so at the end of the line there is no indication of where a group one level u ...

Hi guys,

Thanks for the solution to this vexing issue and the warning about using strip_slashes() on the buffer.

I think this plugin set is a really cool learning tool for new/advancing Smarty ...

here are the characters that are special to preg_replace (according to the php.net manual . \ + * ?

There currently are at least 3 comments there that talk about the dollar sign problem with refer ...

off the top of my head, shouldn't that be a generic replacement? if the problem is in the preg_replace backreference confusion, aren't there all kinds of things that can screw up preg_replace?

i do ...

The only filter I have on is:

$this->autoload_filters = array('output' => array('trimwhitespace'));

Look closely at your results. I see no dollar sign on the summary data when i try to ...

There is a problem using the $ (dollar sign) inside the header tags. Because of the multiple levels of processing that the summary data goes through in the new header stats system a dollar sign in the ...

Skimming your code I wasn't sure if you are also handling the report header/footer and not just the group header/footer.

Yep, I am handling the report main summary with this rather clunky soluti ...