Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Block extensibility?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:05:52PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering Smarty as an alternative to a custom language (developed internally) to > use embedded in html pages. > For this purpose I need to provide at least the same functionalities as the existing ones, and > a requisite for this is the possibility > to write external commands in the form of short tags AND n-ary block tags. > > Reading the manual I found a section describing how to extend Smarty with functions that can be > used in block context; > reading the mailing-list I found a patch (that seems to apply to Smarty1) that should permit to > write block > which have n-components (such as {if} {else} {/if} ). > > My questions are: > > is this last patch embedded in / valid for Smarty2 ? i don't know which one you mean, but i'm pretty sure it is not anyway. > In this case, can I write blocks such as the following one? > {if} > {elsif}* repeated an unlimited (and not know a-priori) number of times > {else} > {/if} blocks in smarty a very restricted. for something like the above you would have to use your own compiler functions. see: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/plugins.compiler.functions.php (hint) maybe you don't need to patch smarty, since you can: register_compiler_function('myif', 'myif_open); register_compiler_function('/myif', 'myif_close); then you can implement a closing and an opening function (and optionallyy my_else etc., of course) and write in your template: {myif ...} ... {/myif} > Where can I find some in depth examples of block extensions? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Nico Sabbi