Re: [SMARTY-DEV] case-insensitive plugins

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:41:21PM -0400, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, messju mohr wrote: > > hello smarty-dev, > > > > i just broke bc to certain smarty-installations recently. :) > > > > tag-names are case-insensitive now. > > Grrrr! > > > this means: > > [...stuff...] > > > > > > > > please tell me, if this change affects you, and if you have any > > problems with it. > > Why was this change made in the first place? Was it so broken that it > absolutely had to be done? Or was it a case of creeping featurism where > Smarty has to acquire more and more things upon the slightest request? it is not a feature. it was done, to avoid trouble in the long run. the names for auto-loaded plugins' tags are mapped 1-to-1 php-function-names (and that's good), but php-function-names are case-insensitive. so using {Foo} and {foo} in the same template would both acquire smarty_function_foo() as it's implementation. this would call for trouble in two different plugin-files. it wasn't done in a rush. it was carefully decided and now committed. no bloat and no features where intended here. greetings messju > -Andrei > http://www.gravitonic.com/