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ashok9999
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:35 am    Post subject: meaning of the smarty code Reply with quote

I'm new to smarty and I'm seeing this line

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="
{$system['system_url']}/themes/{$system['theme']}/images/favicon.png" />
This line is used to set favicon but they can use direct the image url "images/favicon.png" so why they used
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AnrDaemon
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without knowing the content of each variable, I could only guess that they used it to prevent ambiguity of relative path reference.
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bsmither
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The theme publisher is making it so that the template need not be changed for each sub-theme that could exist, and for installations that may exist in a sub-folder.

There should be a theme descriptor file where the sub-themes can be defined. Then, {$system['theme']} could be:
my_theme/steel_blue
and {$system['system_url']} could be:
www.mysite.com/wholesale_store
This allows for arbitrary flexibility where otherwise, one would need to specifically find the relevant statements and re-code all templates in a theme.
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