Smarty

[wwarby]

I am familiar with PHP but completely new to smarty. I am creating a theme for Menalto Gallery2, and struggling with something hopefully quite simple. The end game is that I want to display a PNG image within my template and apply a CSS style to it only when I detect IE 5.5 or 6.0 as the browser - I plan on doing this using a PHP function which checks the browser version and outputs the <img> tag, taking the URL of the image as an argument, and the problem I am having is in the passing of that URL to the function because part of it comes from a smarty variable.

If I insert this in my .tpl file:

Theme Base: {$theme.themeUrl}

I get this output:

Theme Base: themes/theme_name

However, if I do this:

{php}echo(pngImage({$theme.themeUrl}.'/images/myimage.png'));{/php}

The {$theme.themeUrl} part doesn't work, presumably because it's inside a {php} block. I've tried at least 10 different ways of writing this expression and spent all morning searching these forums and the documentation - trouble is, I don't really know what I'm looking for.

Would be extremely grateful for any help here.

Incidentally, another way I have seen the base path inserted in Gallery2 templates is like so: {g->theme url="images/myimage.png"}. Don't know if that way may offer a better solution. Unfortunately I don't understand smarty syntax at all.

-William

[messju]

You should avoid {php} and better use a function plugin in the template.
(If you don't believe me you may want to use $this->get_template_vars())