Re: smarty

From: "Chris de Vidal" <chris@devidal.tv> > Kelly Hallman said: > > Going even one step further (the beauty of Smarty: always another level), > > just extend the Smarty object itself. Then, instead of making all your > > templates includes other templates (such as a header or a footer), you can > > make your overall page be a template, and the extended Smarty object can > > be given extra functionality to control the page: > > > > {* MyPage.tpl -- Smarty template for the entire page *} > > ...header... > > {include file=$content} > > ...footer... > > > > // mypage.php -- extended Smarty object > > class MyPage extends Smarty { > > var $tmpl = 'MyPage.tpl'; > > function render($x) { > > $this->assign('content',$x); > > $this->display($this->tmpl); } } > > > > // actualphpcode.php -- called by the browser > > $pt = new MyPage; > > $pt->render('pagecontent.tpl'); > > Sorry, I'm feeling better now but still don't understand what you're > telling me/us. Could you please expound? What functionality does this > afford? If I can take first shot, since this was posted to the list... :) It's basically a wrapper around Smarty to automatically load the header-content-footer template and dynamically fill in the content based on what's passed to render. So, displaying all of your different pages would be as simple as: $pt = new MyPage; $pt->render('contact.tpl'); $pt ->render('prices.tpl'); $pt->render('index.tpl'); etc... The "wrapper" automatically loads the "master" template with the header and footer, and then replaces the {content} tag with the content of the appropriate template that render() was passed. Just one method of many. If I'm interpreting it right, that is. :) ---John Holmes...