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chimericdream
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:03 pm    Post subject: Smarty "singleton" (with code) Reply with quote

In our office, we had a need to access the smarty object from within the scope of modifiers. Unfortunately, modifiers do not have the object passed as a reference like functions do. We also do not always have our smarty object in the global scope, so it wouldn't necessarily be accessible via "global $smarty;".

Because of this need, we added a bit of singleton-esque code to the base Smarty class to allow modifiers to access smarty class functions without rewriting the way modifiers work.

Here is that code:
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Smarty.class.php

At the beginning of the configuration section (~line 66), add:
Code:
    /**
     * Stores the current instance of Smarty for use by modifiers
     * (accessed through Smarty::getInstance())
     *
     * @var null|Smarty
     */
    public static $_instance = null;


Add the following to the end of the class constructor (~line 580), add:
Code:
      // Store the Smarty object into the $_instance variable so that modifiers
      // can access it (if necessary)
      self::$_instance = $this;


Add the following below the class constructor (~line 586), add:
Code:
    /**
     * Returns the current instance of Smarty for use by modifiers or other
     * plugins
     *
     * @return Smarty
     */
    public static function getInstance() {
        return self::$_instance;
    }


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As you can probably see, this is not a true singleton, because you cannot create a Smarty object from the getInstance. Its sole purpose is to provide access to the Smarty object that has already been created (regardless of scope).

Here is a link to the modifier (and its sister function) that we needed this functionality for.

http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62502

Comments are welcome, but hopefully this will help someone else.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI, another singleton implementation

http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16604
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