Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Formsess developement: matching a variable in a string

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:04:30PM +0100, Katana wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm still working in order to improve formsess, my forms generation & > validation library for smarty. > > At the moment, I'm attempting to cleanup the mess I have when dealing > with variables inside formsess tags. > > To summarize, all the tags look like this: > <fs:input type="text" name="foo" /> > Of course, you are supposed to be able to use a smarty variable as the > name. So I had to build a regexp in order to match smarty variables, but > I'm realizing that it's quite stupid to reinvent the wheel, and it would > be better to let smarty handle that. > > So, the actual question is: what method could I cleanly use in order to > check if a string is a smarty variable, or a string containing a smarty > variable with backticks ? there is no method. if you have $compiler in your prefilter you could use the $compiler->_var_regexp property. it's not a very clean way: $_var_regexp is considered internal but it would work with 2.5 and 2.6. you have to ponder. > Thanks in advance, > > Katana