Smarty

fduarte42 · Smarty Rookie Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 8

Hi,

I'm writing an OO Templating Engine using smarty for my forms and widgets. My class extends Smarty, but it also needs to be a PEAR Object.

I solved that making Smarty extending PEAR and inserting the call to the PEAR constructor and destructor.

Could it Smarty extend PEAR as an default? So I don't need to patch it every time.

thx

Tito

Gerald · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject:

Well, imho, I don't think they will purposely _add_ a dependance on the smarty class.

Two years ago, Smarty did extends pear (as far as i can remember), but not anymore.

If this dependance deserves nothing, why should they care ?

boots · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

I don't recall if Smarty ever extended Pear--but the config_file class did at one time for the error handling capabilities (which are ok, but not the best IMO).

What would be the benefit of extending Pear, other than your project prefers it? I don't see any but I'd like to hear your opinion. To me, it is just extra overhead.

Also, why is it necessary for Smarty to extend Pear in your project at all? Is it for error handling? If so, there may be other ways to hook them together.

mniskanen · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject:

messju · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:23 am Post subject:

to say it with pear-bureaucracy:
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