Smarty

moet36 · Smarty n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 1

I have a couple variables that I am trying to concatenate with text, to create a date string.

I cannot find an example showing if this is possible.

Trying to create a date string: YYYY-MM-DD

I have the YYYY, MM, DD.

But need to concatenate the "-" between the variables to do a comparison to another date.

I could not even get two text values to concatenate.

Is this possible.

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

Smarty is not a programming language. It's a presentation language.
You don't want to "concatenate" anything, as you are ALREADY in a text context. Just write stuff where you need it.
If you want to compare something - compare original values, not strings that represent them.
In case of dates - compare the timestamps or DateTime's directly.
If you are not passing dates as dates to template - fix your PHP code, it's broken.

bsmither · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:29 am Post subject:

Given that you have this:
$YYYY is "2018"
$MM is "03"
$DD is "18"

bsmither · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:50 am Post subject:

As was mentioned, we are in a text context. The problem is how to distinguish what are variables and what is adjacent text.

Not really discussed in the documentation is backticks.

Try this: