Smarty

[webgodjj]

Hi,

I am trying to switch a site over into Smarty. The site has 5 different headings that I assign in php like so:
[php:1:42c2dc6304]$rand_head = "includes/head".rand(1, 5).".php";
include($rand_head);[/php:1:42c2dc6304]
The files include different rollover images.
So far, I know that I can get a random value with smarty like so:
[php:1:42c2dc6304]{1|rand:6}[/php:1:42c2dc6304]
The question is how do I include this into smarty's include statement?

[mohrt]

There isn't an in-template random number generator that comes with Smarty, but you can do this many ways.

First thing to decide, is this template logic or application logic? In other words, should the random number / file path generation be happening in-template, or in the app? If in the app, you can assign it ahead of time:

[php:1:6312be6813]$smarty->assign('header', "includes/head".rand(1, 5).".tpl");[/php:1:6312be6813]

[Dwza]

In Smarty 3 there is no Random or Rand function. Actually i could not find it for Smarty 2 either. So this must be a extra plugin? And if than its not needed.

You can handle +, -, /, *, abs, ceil, cos, exp, floor, log, log10, max, min, pi, pow, rand, round, sin, sqrt, srans and tan with {math}

The code would look like