Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Suggestion: make template commands case insensitive

> hmm, yes sorry. see my private mail. grmpf. ;) you have mail :) > yes. this idea came up some time before but hasn't been done yet. > i would definately also vote for making function/plugins-names case- > insensitive. goooooooooooooood ;> > only the filenames for autoloaded-plugins make me headaches: no > problem on windows, where filenames are not case-sensitive > (*shudder*). but on other system we can have function.showwhatever.php > and function.showWhatEver.php in the plugin-dir. > > which one should we take? > > currently function.showWhatEver.php would be taken, but thats case- > sensitive behaviour. > > if we change it to take function.showwhatever.php this *is* a BC issue > but i ask, is this a real one? well... erm... in both files, there would be a function declaration: function smarty_function_showwhatever() and function smarty_function_showWhatEver() but they are the same, and something like that wouldn't work anyways, as php would then say: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare smarty_function_showwhatever() (previously declared in /home/www/foo/bar/plugins/function.showWhatEver.php:4) in /home/www/foo/bar/plugins/function.showwhatever.php on line 4 so I guess it wouldn't even break BC, would it? I would suggest that Smarty, in such a case, only reads the first file and then aborts with an error message explaining that something like this isn't allowed!? Regards, David