Smarty

[Exitium]

Im trying to do some mods on an existing product that makes use of smarty templates. The site makes use of a standard template file (lets call it layout.tpl) which basically is the pages header, footer and navigation. Within this template is a variable called $body and depending on what underlying php script is being called the value of $body will change to a variety of other templates.

This all works fine and dandy but I am now trying to make additional variable assignments. These variable assignments are called from the template that ultimately resides in the $body variable of the layout.tpl file.

If I assign variables which are to be displayed in template which will be in the $body variable before the body variable asignment is made everything works fine.

BUT, If I assign variables which are to be displayed in template which will be in the $body variable after the $body variable asignment is made it doesnt work.

for example.....

this works.
$class_tpl->assign('viewdate', $canViewDateAdded); // viewdate variable is inside viewlisting.tpl
$class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting.tpl'); // body variable is inside layout.tpl
$class_tpl->display('layout.tpl', $user);


this does not work
$class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting.tpl'); // body variable is inside layout.tpl
$class_tpl->assign('viewdate', $canViewDateAdded); // viewdate variable is inside viewlisting.tpl
$class_tpl->display('layout.tpl', $user);


Am I correct in assuming that when a template is assigned to a variable that any variables called within the template must have a value prior to the assignment for it to be of any use?

[Celeb]

I don't see how the order of the assigned template variables can make any difference to the end result. In the way you posted it here both examples should work fine.
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[Exitium]

[U.Tews]

Assigned SMARTY variables will not be processed before you call the display or fetch methode.

As Celeb did already mention the order of assignments can not be the problem.

Could it be possible that you have caching enabled and you don't see modification?

You could also use the {debug} tag in your layout.tpl to see which variables have been assigned.