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

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Wom.bat wrote: > Hi folks ;) > > I told messju about this one a week ago, he hasn't answered yet, > so I thought it would be better anyways to put this issue in here: > > Wouldn't it be logical to be able to do either {dowhatever} or {doWhatever} > or {DoWhatever} or whatever ;)) > PHP is case-insensitive with functions as well, so why not make Smarty the > same? VARIABLES, of course, should remain case-sensitive, but one should be > able to use his preferred notation for function/block/filter calls. I know > there are underscores used within Smarty, but I personally prefer camel > notation (whoWantsToLiveForever), and have a small class which extends > smarty and automatically registers functions, blocks, filters etc embedded > within this class. PHP's get_class_methods() returns lower-case method > names, and as such they are registered in smarty - so I cannot do > {displayMenu id="2"} in my templates, but instead I have to write > {displaymenu...}... > > In my eyes, this simply makes no sense, and changing the responsible preg to > "/i" wouldn't cause any compatibility issues, would it? ;) No way. PHP being case-insensitive is simply bad. Let's not do the same for Smarty. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ Some people sell razors. Other people sell razor blades. Microsoft sells shaving cream containing 5% hair growth hormone. -- sigwinch, posting to Kuro5hin