Smarty

Lemon Juice · Smarty Pro Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 109

I want to access the $smarty object in a modifier but cannot find any elegant solution apart from from using "global". I have created a modifier which formats price for display ("format_price") and the formatting is done differently depending on the language. The language is set by my application like this:

boots · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:42 am Post subject:

Hi.

The easy way is to make your modifier a method of your custom Smarty subclass; of course, manually register your modifier in the constructor. As a method of the Smarty object, your modifier can then access $this -- which is, of course, the Smarty instance. You lose the lazy loading, but that's not really a big deal in this case.

HTH

Lemon Juice · Smarty Pro Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 109

Thanks, it works very well. However, I had to move my modifiers from their separate files into the smarty subclass. Also, I believe that speedwise the dirty way of using $GLOBALS['lang'] must be a bit better - but that's the trade-off for using objects...