Smarty

miah · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:15 am Post subject: Cycle frustration

Ok, I have a cycle set up like this:

messju · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:51 pm Post subject:

it's easiest to setup the list in config-file:
cycle_colors="#000000,#FFFFFF"

and then just do:
{cycle values=#cycle_colors#}

if you really have the need to have two distinct colors in your config-file then do someting like:
{cycle values="%s,%s"|sprintf:#col1#:#col2#} or
{cycle values=#col1#|cat:","|cat:#col2#}

but it is ugly to do this in the template IMHO.

miah · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject: Excellent!

That worked great, thanks!

shan · Smarty n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Hi all,

Im trying to use a background image to cycle behind menu items in a loop.

Heres what Ive tried

messju · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject:

@shan:

your assumption is correct: you cannot nest delimiters in smarty. your error-message tells me, that you use an older version of smarty, right? then your syntax would be like string-concatenation in php then:

<tr background="{cycle values=".$ImagesDir."/template/menu_bg_1.gif,".$ImagesDir."/template/menu_bg_2.gif"}">

since smarty-2.5.0 you can simply write:

<tr background="{cycle values="$ImagesDir/template/menu_bg_1.gif,$ImagesDir/template/menu_bg_2.gif"}">

shan · Smarty n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 4 Location: UK

spot on, many thanks for your help