Re: [SMARTY-DEV] feature request: isa operator

Stop. Putting. Business. Logic. In. The. Templates. I've always been against calling object methods from templates anyway, and now this? Please, god, tell me when it's going to stop. On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, boots wrote: > Hi all. > > After using the recent template object features I've noticed the lack > of an isa operator. I realize that some may see this as a slippery > slope so I offer the following rather gently. > > The only need I have for an isa operator is to allow my templates to > determine if they support a given object: > > {if $BLOCK isa PageBlock} > The PageBlock interface is supported. > {/if} > > The supported syntax is: > > {if var isa [not] type} where: > var - reference to a template variable > type - either 'Object' or a classname > > I had to patch the Smarty class to add a generic is_a function to > support PHP < 4.2. The changes in Smarty_Compiler follow the existing > _is* code. This patch was made against the June 10th CVS. My apologies > if I made the patch incorrectly -- but it seems to work for me :) -Andrei * I wish life had an UNDO function. *