Smarty

WeeZard · Smarty n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 2

if I assign empty to ANY smarty variable like this:

AZTEK · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

Why not just assign "" if you know its empty. The keyword empty might have something to do internally with Smarty is why it didnt work.
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messju · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:24 am Post subject:

"empty" is a php language-construct. your statement isn't valid php code. turn your error-reporting on or look in your error-logs. don't try to do php without error-reporting, it doesn't work

WeeZard · Smarty n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 2

my error reporting is:

messju · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 1:13 pm Post subject:

and your display_errors -flag ?

when i run $smarty->assign('foo', empty);
i get:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ')', expecting '(' in empty.php on line 1 

empty is definately not allowed in php, only as "empty($foo)" pseudo-function (as i said: language construct, which means uber-function), use one of
- 0
- null
- false
- ""
- ''
- 'empty'
- "empty"

btw: this is not a smarty-issue, it's a php-issue.

boots · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:31 pm Post subject:

right -- in other words, you also CAN NOT do this in PHP:

$a = empty;

Please remember to read your PHP error logs!